kamikaze.

it is deathly hot outside these days.

and it is only going to get hotter.  because that is what happens when you live in arizona.

another thing that happens when you live in arizona in the summertime is you get to see lots of pigeons.
dead. pigeons.
in the middle of the road.

i used to wonder why the number of birds escalated in the summer months.  then i figured it out.  it's because the heat causes them to either a) be unable fly fast enough to get out of the way of moving cars.  or b) have heat stroke mid-flight and fall from the sky into the middle of the road.  and then people run them over.  and they die.  dead.

now, up until this day, i was proud to say i never caused the inevitable death of one of these poor pigeons (and i use the term "poor" loosely since we all know i'm not really that torn up about a few dead birds).  but that ended today.

let me just tell you what happened.

i was driving along in my car.  jamming to carly rae jepsen, as is my usual.  when all of a sudden, a bird flies right into my car.  but this pigeon does not take the usual route and hit the windshield.  oh  no.  this stupid pigeon smacks right into the driver side window.  as in, if my window had been rolled down this bird would've straight up hit me in the cheek.  this also means that i did not see the bird coming.  and consequently, the smack it made scared me.  bad.  i may or may not have screamed.

also, i may or may not have killed the bird.

RIP kamikaze pigeon.  no doubt you will be joined by many friends as the temperatures rise.