Another accident and a lizard rescue

This morning on my way to work, another curious sight met me along that accident-prone stretch of road. There was a van going in the opposite direction very slowly. I noticed that the front wheels were wobbling. Then as I got nearer, I saw that the front door on the driver's side was badly dented and was being held closed by the driver himself. Closely following that crippled van was the campus police vehicle. I suppose there was another accident along that road again. Sigh!

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A little house lizard has been living inside my car. I first noticed it on the floor on the passenger's side about a week ago. It was quite tiny then. Then when I saw it again on the dashboard a few days ago, it had grown to about two inches but was painfully thin. Poor thing was probably starting from lack of food. So I decided to "rescue" it today. When I got home this evening, I got a sheet of paper from my bag, cornered the lizard against the part where the dashboard meets the windshield and pushed the paper under the lizard. As soon as the lizard hopped onto the paper, I rushed out of the car before it could jump off again and deposited it on some old boxes we had along the side of our garage. Hopefully it will find its way to a nearby light bulb where it will find lots of insects to eat.