picture this...

... in your mind. It will be a hilarious cartoon. Though it did not actually happen, I got a report that made me laugh out loud.

A call this morning, reporting hearing news on the radio: accident on the interstate in Atlanta. Two trucks colliding. One of which had a load of marble.  My first thought was a load of marbles (plural). And immediately a picture comes to mind. Cartoon characters who are whizzing around, looking like their legs are rotating like fan blades. Something of a roller derby effect. Arms flailing like a windmill, while legs go akimbo, moving faster than the eye can observe, trying to maintain balance. A hilarious picture in your mind, of something that is so cartoon'ish as to be laughable... the kind of stunt a Disney character like Steamboat Willie would accidently find himself caught up in...rolling in twelve directions at once.

Of course, that is not at all what occurred. It was a load of stones, possibly quarried in north east Georgia. There is an area, up near the South Carolina border, where there is much marble underground. And several quarries that unearth the mineral to sell for profit. So the incident that occurred in the metro involved large rocks, probably slabs of stone... but it is a hilarious picture to envision: thousands and thousands of little glass marbles rolling around in the highway.

Almost as amusing, in a sad way, to see a trailer full of chickens headed to market, spilled out in the right of way. And you can just imagine how difficult it would be to round up thousands of frightened, squawking chickens. To say nothing of a gazillion loose marble.