This morning, I drove my sister to the dentist and decided to take the back roads. There was this car in front of us. It was going a bit faster than I was for the most part, gradually getting further away from us. Then around one of the curves, we saw the car stopped in the middle of the road. My first reaction was to curse the driver to death. But then we noticed why he stopped.

There was some creature blocking the way. I squinted a little to see what it was. I was really surprised. It looked like a German Shepherd, with its head bowed down, quickly and politely scurrying backwards across the street. It's huge shaved tail was up in the air like a big question mark. My sister and I looked at each other in shock. I screamed out, "Whoa, that's so cool! Why's that dog running backwards across the street?!"

My sister gave me a weirded out look. She was like, "That's not a dog..."

Driving closer to it, I did a double take and a Gestalt switch realizing it wasn't a dog, after all. It was a baby ostrich! I could see how I mistook the dog for the ostrich. The big feathery tail being the dog's head. The ostrich's long bare neck being the dog's tail. In any event, the thought of seeing a dog running backwards was pretty neat. On the other hand, seeing an ostrich? Around these parts? That's quite impressive. As we were slowly getting closer to it, I was speechless. At the same time, I had to keep my eye on the road.

My sister was laughing pretty hard and then commented, "Haha... what the heck?! That's hella random! So... why did the turkey cross the road?"

Turkey?! Wait a minute. I quickly turn my shoulder and get an up close glance as I drove right by it. It was a turkey...

I now know why the turkey crossed the road... to confuse the freaking hell out of me (and to have a reason for my sis and whoever else knows this story to make fun of me)!