Red Eye gravy.......hmmm??? That reminds me of a story.I once worked the second shift keeping hours from 3-1 a.m.. The ride home was an hour as well, so getting home in the wee hours was quite normal. Still, by weeks end, the overtime caught up with me on several occasions.
My ride home was mostly highway, just enough time to lull you into a grog state. Once as I got off the highway I struck a raccoon making his/her way across the exit ramp. I hit it so hard that as I drove over it, the impact of the raccoon to the underbody heaved the floor panel enough to knock my foot up and off the gas pedal. I had to stamp down the dent that was at least 2-3 inches high with my foot once I reached the end of the ramp. Where I was living at the time, there were very few streetlights and none on the highway, so as I pulled off the highway with low beams on, there was little time to react.
The next a.m. I looked at the front of my car and found a large dent in the lower fairing below the bumper. No hair, no blood visible. I stamped out the rest of the dent in my floorboard and went to visit the impact site. Again, no hair, no blood, no raccoon!! I figured the raccoon must have dragged itself to the woods and rolled over. Nothing could be found. For the next couple of weeks, I drove by the area with the windows down to catch a whiff of rotting flesh. Again to my amazement, nothing! No red eye pot roast or gravy! Nothing but dents in my car.
