Worries abounding.

[valis2]

I was just driving home and passed a turtle. A turtle on the largish side (about a foot long). It looked like a dark rock, but I immediately knew what it was, and I was so worried, because it looked like it was walking a little strangely. It was perpindicular to the road, obviously trying to cross it, which is bad; it's the end of rush hour and it's a busy two-land road. It was in the third lane, which is used to go around people who are turning left there.

I came back and parked, and as I walked up behind it, it broke my heart by retreating into its shell every time a car whooshed past. It wasn't a snapper, thank goodness, because they can bite you even if you hold them by the very back of their shells, so I picked it up and took it across the street.

But there's nothing much across the street, so then I took it back to where it (presumably) had come from, which is a big lake with some wild shore still left.

Now I'm second-guessing myself, because it might have wanted to lay eggs or something. I'm totally worried that it is, at this moment, laboriously turning itself around in order to try to cross the street again.

It'll take it awhile, I'd imagine, so I'm going to go check in another hour. *frets*

ETA: No sign of the turtle. *giant sigh of relief*

Comments

[rinsbane.livejournal.com]

oh my goodness, that breaks my heart just a little reading about it. I'm a sop for animals - I get very worried about them. This is not helped by the fact that one of my dogs is a 20 lb. car chaser, out of control. I guess he's my parents' dog, but how I fret! It sounds like you did the right thing - there's no way to know what goes on in a turtle's mind, and if it's determined, you can't stop it.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

It just reminds me of when they built a new road through a thicket of woods, and the first day they opened the road I drove along it, and there was a lone pheasant at the edge of the road looking absolutely bewildered, and I cried.

On the lighter side...you're making me want to write a ficlet exploring the mind of a determined turtle. lol.