Things you don’t want to hit with your bike

In ascending order of importance:
1. Pretty much anything.
2. A turkey vulture.
You cannot imagine how large one of these things is, and how slow it is in getting up off the dead cat on the side of the road. The body and the shape of the neck definitely look like a turkey hen, and then it flaps those enormous wings and before you can say “Brakes! Brakes! Brakes!” it’s almost a foot and a half over your head.
Good thing I didn’t hit it, or I’d have spent a week detailing my bike. Why, you ask? Because the bird had a lot of tail.
(Hannah snorked her dinner roll over that one.)