Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Collage

I had an interesting thought while in my truck last week, driving to Sydney, NE. Believe me, 6 hours at the wheel is plenty of time to think about random, useless, thoughts. Here's my thought. As I'm zooming down I-80, various insects are sacrificing themselves upon my windshield. Are some of these insects endangered? Did that one splatter in the middle of my vision, just bring a species into extinction? These are living creatures and I'm responsible for ending their tiny little lives. Is God going to hold me accountable? After reasoning awhile on it, I decided that He would probably forgive me since I was going to volunteer my time for the betterment of mankind. And then I got to thinking about how annoying it is for an insect, the size of a marshmallow, to play 'chicken' with you, and lose, and coat half of your windshield with juicy bug entrails. Turn on the wipers, spray some windshield washer fluid, and finish smearing all over the rest of your windshield. Perfect! I just cut my vision down to about 50 feet! Of course, when you stop for gas, it's time to clean the collage off your windshield. Then, my mind switched gears again, and wondered how cool my collage of insects would be, if I traveled all the way across the country without cleaning my windshield. I would have quite the bug collection! I don't really lose sleep over dead flying things on the windshield. If you happen to notice, there is never short supply of insects to pollute your windshield, and multiply that by how many drivers on the road?

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