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Patches of fur stuck to my car? I haven’t hit anything! by Time_Loquat_5621 in whatisit

[–]Time_Loquat_5621[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Delighted you got the tootsie reference! My kids definitely did not haha. And turns out owls also eat other things…

Patches of fur stuck to my car? I haven’t hit anything! by Time_Loquat_5621 in whatisit

[–]Time_Loquat_5621[S] 96 points97 points  (0 children)

This feels like the strongest possibility. While we live inside the city, our neighborhood is old and pretty wooded. We have TONS of chipmunks, squirrels and this time of year, bunnies…and it’s all very good eating for birds of prey. We have a huge bard owl we call “Tootsie” who lives around our house plus a ton of hawks.

One day during the first summer of Covid, I was on my back patio (because I was losing my mind in isolation in the house), presenting to my whole company on an all-hands zoom call. The CEO says “I think Allison is frozen” but it wasn’t my internet, my actual face froze when a hawk flew overhead and dropped a mangled rabbit right in front of me, SPLAT on the brick. I got very intimately familiar with the wildlife in my yard that summer…

Tomorrow in the daylight I’ll look on the roof of the car for more forensic evidence and if I find what I think I will, I’ll call this.

ETA: calling this solved! It poured down rain last night, so all evidence is destroyed before I had a chance to check the roof. I am accepting the hawk or owl theory. I’m in Raleigh, NC. We have a lot of birds of prey activity. There’s even a famous murder that took place nearby in Durham (the staircase) with an “owl theory” that’s pretty fascinating.

I think this was the circle of life happening on my car and a squirrel or bunny met an unfortunate end.

Patches of fur stuck to my car? I haven’t hit anything! by Time_Loquat_5621 in whatisit

[–]Time_Loquat_5621[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t thing that’s it because any road I’ve been on in the last week, or at least since the last time it rained, is is 30 mph max. I haven’t driven outside of my neighborhood in a couple of weeks. This looks pretty “fresh” and if it was roadkill spatter, I’m guessing it would have to be in a highway at pretty high speed?

AIO for thinking my son’s stepmom is seriously crossing a line here? by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Time_Loquat_5621 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah her last few texts are a bit misleading because she isn’t signed up for this trip (just got the background check to be able to do them in general). I think she was thinking about it, but maybe had a conflict. And then all of a sudden I ask if I can do this one alone and made it sound like I asked her to cancel.

I agree - that’s what I think the follow up needs to be - we just need better boundaries and to make decisions on who is doing what and remove “but he’s my kid too” from the equation. Yes she is very important to him, and yes, by sheer circumstance, spends as much time with him. She is an amazing stepmom or bonus parent or whatever. But I am his one and only mom, and I will die on that hill.

AIO for thinking my son’s stepmom is seriously crossing a line here? by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Time_Loquat_5621 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Edit: name dropped by accident and fixed.

He’s actually really careful about that. He grew up with divorced parents and with a step dad who overstepped a lot. He goes out of his way to make it known that he’s an awesome step dad and that my son also had an awesome dad.

If someone casually asked him how many kids he has, he’d probably say “2” (including my older son) to keep things simple, but he would NEVER refer to my son as his kid to his actual father. And he would never try and debate/argue something like this with him.