I was surveying in the SW States in the mid 90's, on a cool fall morning in Oklahoma there appeared to be dark strange bumps all over a particular stretch of road, I could feel slight bumps as I went over them so I stopped and opened the door for a closer look...the road was covered in big, hairy, ugly spiders, hundreds of them...according to my rodman, who was from Texas, it was common for them to crawl on to the warm asphalt at night.
Headed back to Alberta on same work hitch and somewhere in Montana in the middle of the night I can see a fire up ahead, a big one...as I get closer its a pickup truck with a man and woman standing next to it. I pull over and grab my fire extinguisher but the man stops me and says "Let it burn", I got back in my truck and kept heading north, met firetrucks a couple miles down the road.
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