Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road?

by Frank Roche on October 17, 2008

[Photo credit: Rob Criswell, Those Other Turtles

I must be in my atonement phase after my little fuss with the Jeep dude last week. This week, I saved a life. Okay, it was a painted turtle that was crossing a back road that’s on my way home. (I was going for the dramatic. The closest I’ve come to saving a life is my own when I stopped eating hamburgers a year ago.)

There was this little spotted turtle crossing the road. I was in a bit of hurry. But in a fit of doing the right thing, I stopped my car, bumped on the flashers, and scooped up my little spotted friend. (We share lizard brains in common.) I put him on the other side of the road in the direction he was headed. And that, my friends, was my good deed for the day. I’ll get back to my regularly scheduled curmudgeonly ways in due time.

  • http://aroomsomewhere.blogspot.com Merci

    Sorry, you have officially lost your status as a curmudgeon. Your membership is now revoked. Please turn your membership card in at the nearest DMV (otherwise known as Curmudgeon Central).

  • http://www.frankroche.com/blog Frank

    Merci, you're right. And I was thinking of getting a job there. I figure in this down economy people sill have to drive. Ah, this moving the turtle thing is just a phase. It'll pass.

  • Marvin

    Good work, Frank. Gotta do a little karmic maintenance every once and a while.

    (BTW: I've always heard the turtle crossed the road so it could get into the Shell station.)

  • http://www.frankroche.com/blog Frank

    Marvin, I'm really tired after a long workweek, but that joke made me rally laugh. Just what I needed.

  • Rich Mennenoh

    Your a good man Frank.

  • http://www.frankroche.com/blog Frank

    Thanks. Tuna.

  • Pax Romano

    Frank,

    I let all of god's creatures cross the road …. except for squirrels, I confess, I speed up when I see one of those hyperactive little rodents.

  • http://www.frankroche.com/blog Frank

    I do the same….and proof once again that we're brothers from a different mother, I don't even blink about those furry rats that people call squirrels. After they cost me more than $1,000 to get them extracted from my attic, it's even worse for me. I go out on Squirrel Drives.

  • http://swedehartjournal.blogspot.com Jessica

    Good deed make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Even when it comes to saving critters who carry Salmonella.
    You're a good guy, Frank.

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