You did the right thing, Jason. Good job!

That made me smile.

Well, us college buds did hit a cow just north of Okmulgee on the B-line. The local shire reeve showed up and quickly informed us that there wsa no way to track the owner. We killed it real goood. Bill, who was in the passenger seat, just remembers waking up to the image of a cow's head across the windshield as blood splattered on his side window. After we stopped, the last thing the cow did while alive was to poop from from bumper to back on Bill's side. It hit the rear quarter panel real hard and the gas fill nozzle stuck out like a hard on. After the reeve told us he couldn't do much, he did offer to call the OHP. Evidently they said a trooper would be there in about 3 hours. We just waited. In the mean time, an old Black man shows up in a dented station wagon. He gets out, goes to the back and opens up the tailgate. He spreads out a nice selection of carving knives and starts to sharpen them old school style. He says, "Youse boys are gonna take mama some mighty fine bbq meat tonight if you wants it." Our driver then looks at us and asks each one if we intend to see what the man is planning to do to the cow right then and there on the middle of US 75. We voted unanimously to go into Okmulgee and get accident papers from the sheriff dispatcher and go on our way. So we loaded up and went into Okmulgee to the sheriff's office. There was your stereotypical drunk Indian sitting in the first holding cell. We went up to the window and asked for the forms. The nice lady said, "Oh, your those college boys from the cow crash, hold on for a moment the sheriff wants to ask you something." "Base to unit 1, those boys are here." "Ok base, ask them boys if they want to come back out here and get some fresh meat for their moms." "We look at her and reply, no thanks mam." She calls back out and tells the sheriff. He then replies, "Mabel, wake up the trustees and give them the key to the pickup and tell them to come out 3 miles north on US 75. Tell them I have about 300 lbs in beef for the cook. Also wake up Henry and tell him what we have coming in, he may want to use some of it for tomorrow."
We got back into our car and headed back to McAlester where we also had Karen Carpenter playing along with Doobie Brothers, Beach Boys, Christopher Cross, and Supertramp.