I was driving down the lovely Devine Street today with the windows down, the sunroof open, and some Fleetwood Mac greatest hits playing. I was thinking how much I love that street and how I wanted to go back to Kicks later to find some new sandals and flats. I was thoroughly enjoying my morning off and couldn’t wait to get my pedicure.
Then I see a perfectly normal looking Southern woman walk to the middle of the road and wrap something around her hand to cover it up. She starts to bend over and as I’m getting closer I can see that she’s going to pick up something in the road. But what is it? I get closer and realize that it’s definitely road kill. And she’s picking it up. Picking up the road kill on Devine Street.
As I get right next to her, I’ve slowed my car down to 5 miles per hour to get a good look at the dead opossum (is the “o” really necessary?) that she’s carrying by its nasty pink tail. Never in my life.
I guess I’ve always wondered who moves the road kill from the street to the curb, but I just never imagined it to be such a lovely looking woman. If it had been me I’m sure the possum that I assumed was dead would all of a sudden wake up (from “playing possum”) and take a bite out of my hand and give me rabies.
Only in South Carolina…
Ohhhhh man, that’s gross!
It must happen more often that we assume…. It happened to the mom on the bachelor last night, it was a dove, but she took it home put it in the fridge and then buried it. SICK
UGH!!!
OMG!! possums are my biggest nightmare! I would have died! YUCK!
Haha! I’ve seen it in Texas too!
Oh my gosh, YUCK!!!
oh the south-we love it 🙂
Oh wow- I can’t believe this happened on Devine Street. I can’t believe there are possums crossing Devine Street either- weird!!
Oh – I love me some Fleetwood Mac! My dad used to play it in the car every morning on the way to school 🙂 I can’t believe a proper southern lady picked up the roadkill! I don’t think my body would even let me.
Oh. My. Word.
Erin, did you get the new Boden today? I’m in love…
Ew, that’s disgusting..
Oh My Gracious! That is disgusting.
hahaha…I’m in Columbia, SC too! So I’m getting a pretty good laugh from this!!!
Disgusting!! You couldn’t pay me enough money to make me touch any road kill – ugh! What a visual that must have been.
Ewww! Those things have always scared me…even dead ones!
love your blog!
That is slightly disturbing. I’ve always wondered who picked them up off the street too.
Wow, thats gross! I would never do that!!
hahah! never witnessed that while i was in law school there, it definitely would’ve been a shock… now down here in NOLA, anything’s possible… eeek!
OMG that is freakin hilarious!!!!!!!!!!
Wow that’s gross!! I wonder what she did with it! I thought the state handled road kill clean up!
only in the South is this type of behavior acceptable
Ughhh. Nasty. I always thought they had some kind of street sweeper for that. I never realized someone did it with their hands. Craziness!
That is a little gross. I couldn’t do that!
Ok, that’s gross!!!! I’ve never seen anyone do that before!
I had no idea that some poor soul had to literally “pick it up”. . .
Holy moly…I cannot even IMAGINE seeing that…especially on Devine Street. G-Ross.
That’s so nasty! Can you imagine the germs? Hopefully she had a bottle of purel and used it after carrying the road-kill. Ick!
At least you were listening to some good tunes—I heart Fleetwood Mac!
AHHH Dead animals were everywhere yesterday!! I’ve always wondered who moved road kill too… I guess I had convinced myself police officers moved it. Boy, was I wrong… Nice Southern ladies just doesn’t seem right tho. xx, N
Wow. That is NASTY!
Woo! Now that’s a crazy story. Just the other day, I saw two road crew workers digging a grave on the side of the road. A dog had met his unfortunate end and they were actually going to burry him right on the curb. Poor thing. At least it was honorable. Wild story-wonder what the woman did with it? Yuck.