What?!?

I just want to take a moment to recount a story I heard today. I laugh simply because of the comic value of the image provoked in my mind in response to the event. The event itself may have been terrifying and most certainly eventually annoying. My vignette version is as follows:

Carlye, Sarah's sister, was enjoying a touch of spring by choosing to walk to work today. I picture a music montage, you know, waking up, birds chirping, maybe writing in the mirror in the bathroom after a shower, singing into the hair brush perhaps. That's taking it a little far. But with the click of the door latch, the music ceases and Carlye strolls out into her day.

Enjoying the unevenness of the old Winston-Salem sidewalk, she counts her steps between the cracks. Suddenly, her hairs raise on her arms with the uneasiness of being watched by something creepy. Carlye quickens her pace. Over her shoulder, a diminutive form parallels a similar path.

Almost certain of danger now, Carlye breaks into a run. It's at this moment her pursuant makes its move. A neighborhood squirrel leaps through the air and latches on to Carlye's thigh. Panicked and shrieking, she attempted to shake and kick the menace loose.

Unwavering, and with definitive motion, the squirrel sinks his or her teeth into Carlye's leg and bounds off in that bounding squirrel way. She blacks out. and I picture the camera whirling above Carlye's upturned face, descending then into her esophagus. She wakes up, cradled softly above the pavement by a square jawed Swedish medical intern.

That's another story though. And I am obviously no storyteller.

Our hearts go out to you tonight Carlye. We never knew anyone who had to get rabies shots before. xo