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pebblerocker) wrote2012-01-26 03:49 pm
pebblerocker) wrote2012-01-26 03:49 pm
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Cut for sad, involving animals not being alive any more. Don't click if the not-alive word still hurts.
I was driving home from work and I saw something like a rock in the road, but as I went past I saw it had flippers and I realised it must be next-door's turtle that escaped, but I was already past the turtle and very nearly at next door's driveway, so I turned into their driveway because someone's always home there and I could yell for them to come and get the turtle. As I turned in there was a man driving the other way and he had his window down so I yelled 'Be careful, there's a turtle in the road!' He might not have heard exactly what I said but he slowed right down. I looked at the next-door house and saw the windows were shut and no cars were there, so I backed out of the driveway quickly and went back up to where I'd seen the turtle. The man in the van had gone past and was at the end of the road and there was another car behind him, I think it came out of the side road so it didn't pass me, and the turtle was flat and dead in the road.
I could have rescued that turtle, it could still be alive and it's my fault it's not alive, if only I hadn't been a bit afraid of not knowing how turtles like to be picked up. I hate it when animals die and I feel so, so guilty and sad. I didn't know that turtle at all, I've never even met a turtle, but it was alive and now it's not and it's such a sad thing. I wish I had a time machine or I wish I'd seen it before I went past so I'd stopped, even if I decided it was too scary to pick up I could have blocked the lane and stopped it getting run over. I just wish I'd done it right and it wasn't too late, I can never make things better.
I was driving home from work and I saw something like a rock in the road, but as I went past I saw it had flippers and I realised it must be next-door's turtle that escaped, but I was already past the turtle and very nearly at next door's driveway, so I turned into their driveway because someone's always home there and I could yell for them to come and get the turtle. As I turned in there was a man driving the other way and he had his window down so I yelled 'Be careful, there's a turtle in the road!' He might not have heard exactly what I said but he slowed right down. I looked at the next-door house and saw the windows were shut and no cars were there, so I backed out of the driveway quickly and went back up to where I'd seen the turtle. The man in the van had gone past and was at the end of the road and there was another car behind him, I think it came out of the side road so it didn't pass me, and the turtle was flat and dead in the road.
I could have rescued that turtle, it could still be alive and it's my fault it's not alive, if only I hadn't been a bit afraid of not knowing how turtles like to be picked up. I hate it when animals die and I feel so, so guilty and sad. I didn't know that turtle at all, I've never even met a turtle, but it was alive and now it's not and it's such a sad thing. I wish I had a time machine or I wish I'd seen it before I went past so I'd stopped, even if I decided it was too scary to pick up I could have blocked the lane and stopped it getting run over. I just wish I'd done it right and it wasn't too late, I can never make things better.