So another typical day of riding in to work, but then something funny happened as I was approaching a herd of geese (that's right... I called them a herd). A white truck also approached them without much indication of slowing down until it was a mere 3 feet from crushing one of them. Then the driver honked her horn.
Ok. this is where things got weird. I could swear I heard some say "F#ck you!" which could be explained by one of the following possibilities:
1) Some unrelated event happened nearby that elicited the F-U reaction coincidently.
2) Someone nearby heard the honking and thought it was directed at them which pissed them off.
2) The driver said FU to the goose, and they were so pissed off and said it so loudly that I heard it through their rolled up windows.
3) It was a talking goose from New York. I say New York and not a local goose because nobody jaywalks in Seattle. Though I would have expected the full sentence to be: "FU! I'm walking here!".
4) I've become so conditioned to Seattleites' visceral reaction to honking that I automatically imagined the voice.
Oh yeah, and drivers.. there are a couple of sticks hanging off your steering wheel. One of them turns little blinking lights on and off to let everyone else on the road know what crazy driving maneuver you are about to do. Think about using them... you paid for that feature.
