BATS!
28 April 2003-10:11 p.m.
I'm sure at some point groovyone will tell you about this herself I have to mention it because it was so bizarre. We had rehearsal tonight, and then afterward she and I were standing in the driveway talking. We had been chatting for a few minutes, swatting at mosquitoes, when all of a sudden this giant thing flew out of the sky right into groovyone's head! It was a bat! A bat actually flew into her hair! She did the only thing any self-respecting person would do. She screamed bloody murder and hit herself in the head with her notebook while ducking and backing up all at the same time. I did the only thing I could do. I screamed, jumped back, and then looked at the large bat that had landed on the ground in front of me. It moved. I screamed again and then ran around to the other side of the car. At this point groovyone had no idea what had hit her. I told her it was a bat. Again pause for a moment of slight freak out.
Of course we still didn't know if it was gone or not. So we both cautiously creep up to the car, one eye on the ground the other on the sky. We both moved in kind of a crouch. We didn't want to get hit by any more. It's dusk and the car is casting a shadow so we can't really see anything. Groovy's purse is on the ground and it's the same color as a bat. With the shadows and the stains on the driveway we can't tell. And to tell the truth neither of us wanted to get that close. But we had to, because she needed her purse and keys and to get in her car. So finally she goes around the car and up so she's standing directly across the possibly bat-strewn path from me. Than she say's "okay I'm going to run toward you, if the bat's still there on the ground he'll move probab;ly towards you too. You watch" So she ran, and she ran in that way only a truly scared girl in sandels who really doesn't want her feet to touch the ground can run. We finally ascertained that the bat was gone. Because nothing moved. I don't know what would have happend if something had moved. Probably screamed again. But thankfully the driveway was now bat-free. Groovyone quickly grabbed her stuff that she had dropped, and we left. By the time I had hurried to my car I did what any good friend would do. I sat down and laughed until I cried.
I had heard stories about bats flying out of the sky at people but I'd never actually experienced it before. Damn I'm glad it wasn't me that it hit. Groovyone was actually pretty composed for someone who just been dive-bombed by a flying rodent. I would have been incoherent. *shudders at thought* suffice to say I will now walk around with hunched shoulders at dusk.