Better to Laugh

My young adult son and I were driving home from church yesterday when a squirrel jumped from the grassy median and under my car tire. 

“Mom, what were you doing?”  my son exclaimed.

“Driving!” I replied.  “If an animal jumps into the road, you can’t lose control of your car to avoid it.  You have to keep driving, even if that means you hit the animal!”

“That is the second squirrel you have killed since we moved here!” he said, rather upset.  We moved here nearly 12 years ago.

“Well I can’t help it if there are suicidal squirrels in this neighborhood!  He jumped off of the curb.  What was I supposed to do?” 

I am just glad there was a dresser in the back of the SUV so I couldn’t see in the rearview mirror.