pete@uottawa.UUCP (Peter Hickey) (09/20/85)
Please excuse me, I know I should have posted this in net.frogs, but
we don't suscribe to it.
Today, when I was driving back from the
camping trip, I had an interesting
experiance. Here is is:
I had taken my canoe with me on the trip.
Last night, I had left it upside down near
the lake. This morning, I packed up the
car, and tied the canoe onto the top.
Then I started driving.
I drove for a while, and then I noticed
that the canoe was a little loose, so I
stopped and tied it tighter. I drove on
some more.
Finally, I came to Highway 5.
I was driving down the highway at 100K/H,
looking at all kinds of things as well as
watching the road.
Now, when you're driving a car that has a
canoe tied onto the top of it, you always
see a bit of the canoe when you look out
the front window.
This case was no exception, and along with
all the other things I was looking at, I
was looking at the front of the canoe.
Suddenly, I saw two eyes looking at me from
under a part of the front of the canoe.
Then I noticed that these eyes were
attached to a small head, and, likewise,
the head was attached to a body.
It was a frog that was in the process of
waking up. He seemed to be confused as
to where he was. He looked like he was
ready to jump. I said "Don't jump frog!"
Now either he didn't hear me, didn't pay
attention to me, or he was a unilingual
franco-frog. (This was in Quebec)
He jumped.
He then hit my windshield, bounced off
and hit the highway at a high speed.
Jean-Philipe (my son) said "Lets go back and
get him."
I said "I think he's dead."
What could be the moral of this story?
Pete Hickey
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University of Ottawa,
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