13IS250C Posted March 16, 2015 Posted March 16, 2015 The other day we were talking about road kill stories. I just remembered this one, and I thought you might enjoy it. I don't know if any of you have ever been in an S2000, but they are tiny and very low to the ground. My daughter and I lit out in mine one day to go visit my sister in Florida. Normally a 12 hour trip, but thanks to an accident in Birmingham and a rain storm that I had to pull over and wait out....it took us 14. It was a beautiful day when we left so we had the top down. I told Allison that we couldn't go the whole way with it down so we pulled over and put it up and I promised we would put it back down about an hour from Sissy's house. Well, thanks to the delays, it was pitch dark on the last stretch of road and bugs were splatting on the windshield leaving splats about 4 inches in diameter. Needless to say, we both agreed to leave the top up! I was tooling around 80. I was tired and ready to get out of that car. All of a sudden, a darned armadillo ran out in front of us. I couldn't do anything but just aim to straddle the thing. It sounded like someone was under my car hitting it with a sledge hammer!!!! Allison was screaming at me that I had killed an armadillo and I was panicking checking my gauges making sure the stupid thing hadn't damaged my oil filter or pan. I mean we were literally in swamp land. I told Sissy where we were when it happened and she informed me that there is no cell service there. If that car had been disabled I can just only imagine the creatures we would have confronted. Eew! I never took a road trip in that car again.
LEX-SV Posted March 16, 2015 Posted March 16, 2015 OMG creature features! Thankfully the S2000 had no puncture wounds.
13IS250C Posted March 16, 2015 Author Posted March 16, 2015 I often wondered as light as the car was and as fast as we were going if the car would have flipped if I had hit him with a tire. All in all, I think the good Lord was watching after us that night. The first day I got that car David and I took it to the casinos and of course I drove. He got out and looked at me and said, I'll never ride in that car again.
LEX-SV Posted March 16, 2015 Posted March 16, 2015 My personal road kill story is not nearly as impressive. I hit a small bird at freeway speeds, it stuck in the grill of my car, clean kill.
13IS250C Posted March 16, 2015 Author Posted March 16, 2015 Was it a Firebird or a Thunderbird. Teeheehee...
LEX-SV Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 No, those 2 birds died a slow death taking decades.
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