The Fortune Bat

In what media outlets would probably call news, given the chance, a rare event happened just outside my car on the way home from work. As I was driving along, pondering whatever it is I ponder on drives home, a small motion caught my eye high above me. I glanced up to see a small, winged figure, flying quickly to some unknown destination. All in the world was as it should have been.

Suddenly, and without warning, the winged creature took a suddent 90˚ turn in the downward direction. Wings folded against its body, it dived at something I'm sure was visible only to it. After plunging thirty feet, making its impact with the ground seem imminent, it again corrected its path, but in the direction of my car!

In the brief moment that I had to ponder what a 2745 lb. car would do to a small, flighted creature, I was surprised. Instead of meeting its doom, the creature streaked no more than a foot away from my driver-side window. The creature, which we will now call "the fortune bat," chose a dangerously narrow path, but escaped unscathed with what I like to imagine is a tasty morsel for which it risked its life.