Smashing Pumpkins

There's a gentle turn as the local highway shifts and heads you east. You are headed toward the mountains, you feel the car pull beneath you slightly as you navigate the bend and do you know what happens if you are going to fast? Nothing actually.

But do you know what happens if you are going to fast while pulling a 5th wheel carrying 8000 pumpkins? About 1000 of those pumpkins fall out of your truck and onto the road.

And when pumpkin meets asphalt at 70 mph do you know what happens? Pumpkin fireworks!

I didn't know pumpkins actually explode on impact, but apparently they do. On the way home from preschool, I saw some poor pumpkin peddler waiting on the side of the road and no kidding at least 1000 pumpkins smashed to smithereens in every direction. I've never seen anything like it. It was amazing actually. There was no way to get around, no recourse for poor pumpkin man, just pumpkin guts everywhere. It was a great pumpkin massacre, Charlie Brown. Some of them must have even bounced over the median because the pumpkin carnage was present on my side of the road too.

I so desperately wanted to take a picture, but cruising along the highway while trying to get a snap of smashed pumpkins is the epitome of distracted driving, but, ahhh, it was quite a sight...