[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ave y’all ever read a small but fascinating news article in the daily paper and wished there was more to it? You know, those little blurbs stuck around page 11 that were placed there just to fill space above some ad for hearing aids. Most are just a paragraph long and very few even catch my attention, but occasionally one comes along and grabs me like a lonely TSA agent. Unfortunately, one paragraph just doesn’t satisfy my thirst for knowledge. I want more. Like Paul Harvey, I want to hear the rest of the story.
These short stories leave you hanging. Remember the old Batman TV show where an episode ends with Batman and Robin facing almost certain death? Then you hear, “Is this the end of Batman? Will the Joker get the last laugh? Tune in tomorrow. Same Bat- time, same Bat-channel.” And you couldn’t wait until the next show to see how the Dynamic Duo got out of this mess. Well, some news articles are like that, except there is no conclusion in tomorrow’s paper, just another ad for hearing aids.
Well, last week, I came across such a story on page A19 of the Austin paper. Its bold headlines grabbed me like a drunken widow-woman in a unisex bathroom. I don’t know if y’all read this or not, and stop me if you have, but up in northern Idaho, out on Highway 95, a 50-year-old woman struck a deer on the road.
