Bes checked around, and noticed no cars nearby. Bes started driving on lane dividers, making sure the white lane divider lines were under the car. Bes wanted to crush the nut. No, let me rephrase that. Bes wanted to annihilate the nut for reasons even Bes did not understand. It was just a feeling that said “do it.” Bes sped the car a bit, making sure no pedestrians were in sight and that once the nut was crushed, Bes could resume normal driving easily and without any issues. Everything was under control until Bes noticed something moving in the tree from where the nut had fallen.
What was that moving thing?!?!
Bes was less than 5 seconds away from the nut when another object came down from the tree onto the car, and then jumped on the road, running towards the nut. It was a squirrel. “0_0” was the exact expression on Bes’s face, with Bes’s eyes squinting so hard as if wanting to avoid looking directly at the sun from a close distance. Let me repeat that. Bes’s face looked like:
0_0 with squinted eyes
The brakes got pushed as hard as they could. It was machine crying out loud to stop from angering a squirrel, which would otherwise be crushed to death. The machine knew it could simply run over the small creature and get away with it, but no, something inside the car felt fear. There was some doubt about the whole scene, and the car tried its best to simply stop and not touch the squirrel. The squirrel stood there, not moving an inch. It noticed a car that was trying to hold onto the brakes like crazy, while stopping from some 65 miles per hour speeds. Bes swirled the car a bit to the right, hoping to miss the squirrel while the car was still trying to stop because of the stupendous speed Bes had accelerated to not a few moments ago.
Smoke filled up the scenery in the rear mirror as the tires cried for mercy. The brakes told the tires to keep crying and keep trying, as hopefully the 2+ ton car could hopefully stop before reaching the probably less than a pound squirrel. It did not work. Bes kept looking at the squirrel when the squirrel disappeared under the car, with the car still trying to stop.
The car did not stop!
Bes went over the squirrel, and after passing the scene of the chaos, Bes started glancing in the rear mirror, while the car came to an almost complete stop. Bes could not see clearly in the back because of the smoke. Bes let go of the brake, which made a very weird squealing sound at that very moment and gave a sudden jerk to the car. Bes was surprised. Had the brakes died? Had the tires burst? Finally, in the side mirror, when the dust settled a bit, Bes saw the the new nut owner still standing in the same spot, looking at the 2 ton monster that had just missed because Bes had swirled the car a bit to the right. The squirrel moved a bit towards the side, and then looked at Bes again, as if to say to Bes “Come back here and fight you sissy!” Bes knew better, and kept on driving towards home.
The car brakes sounded and felt weird on the way. Bes parked near the house and started driving around and reversing once in a while, in order to check the brakes. The brakes kept rubbing against something and shaking the car from time to time. That was bad. A nearby mechanic was open, so Bes drove there very slowly, making sure no other nutty squirrels got threatened by nutty Bes along the way. The mechanic was going to close within 20 minutes, so an appointment was scheduled for Bes for the following day at 9 in the morning. The last time I checked, Bes was hoping the repairs do not cost too much. Otherwise, it would be hard to ask a brave squirrel to pay up half of the money for the unexpected adventure that both the squirrel and Bes had gone through over a small nut.
The squirrel is out there….
Bes decided to write about the interesting incident with the nut and the nutty squirrel instead of the nice topic that was brewing in Bes’s head earlier. That other nice topic shall be posted tomorrow. I am sure the squirrel is also telling other squirrels in Berkeley about Bes driving off and not wanting to fight a squirrel which was willing to give its life over a nut. Bes just hopes the squirrel does not know where Bes lives. Bes also hopes that the squirrel does not know about this post.
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