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Here's a weird one: I hit a bird last night. Not "ran over," mind you, but "hit."

I was coming home, around 4 a.m., and I'd just turned onto my road when I saw this thing in the road, something that looked like a styrofoam cup, about that size and white. When I was almost on top of it, I realized that it was a bird, a white bird, just standing there in the road. I aimed my wheels to straddle it, figuring that either I'd go over it safely or it would fly away first.

What it did was somewhere in the middle. As I went over it, there was this sudden *thunk*, like the sound of one particularly heavy raindrop hitting the car, and at the same time, a cloud of feathers flew up in front of me. The damn thing actually decided to try to fly away at the last possible second, and I actually hit the thing in the air with my car.

When I pulled into the driveway, I got out and looked, and there were feathers stuck to the front corner of my car, over the headlight area, and one feather that had blown back and stuck to my side mirror. No signs of blood, scratches or bird guts. Maybe I killed him, or maybe he was just bruised, I don't know -- I didn't see a dead bird on the side of the road when I went back through there today. Still, it was a pretty weird experience.