Comments on: Bambi and the bunnyhuggers https://sorrywatch.com/bambi-and-the-bunnyhuggers/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:23:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kali https://sorrywatch.com/bambi-and-the-bunnyhuggers/#comment-214831 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 22:38:32 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=5673#comment-214831 Plus BEASTIES

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/bambi-and-the-bunnyhuggers/#comment-214830 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 21:22:26 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=5673#comment-214830 In reply to Kali.

That rabbit would never use a wildlife crossing, I fear. Too proud.

]]> By: Kali https://sorrywatch.com/bambi-and-the-bunnyhuggers/#comment-214829 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:26:54 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=5673#comment-214829 Just leaving this here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVN4PRLrpsA

There was interesting convo about the rabbit’s behavior but I’m most impressed by the humans’ willingness to just be bemused and impressed.

Love the first graphic, btw—a reminder that even the canonical foxtrot was initially part of a wave of dances with silly animal names.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/bambi-and-the-bunnyhuggers/#comment-214825 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:01:03 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=5673#comment-214825 In reply to Andrew Gunther.

That’s a great project!

]]> By: Andrew Gunther https://sorrywatch.com/bambi-and-the-bunnyhuggers/#comment-214824 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:21:57 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=5673#comment-214824 Such a project is underway [sic] in the Santa Cruz Mountains and still needs help: https://www.landtrustsantacruz.org/hwy-17-wildlife-crossing-campaign/

]]> By: snarly https://sorrywatch.com/bambi-and-the-bunnyhuggers/#comment-214823 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:02:47 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=5673#comment-214823 Snarly (c’est moi) was driving with her fam from the Denver airport to Steamboat Springs in the middle of the night — our flight was woefully delayed. It was very dark. Out of nowhere, an ELK! Brakes were slammed. It was too late. Wham. Airbags. Screeching metal. Dead elk. Shattered windshield. Crunched car. No one around, and no cell service. We waited, with crying children and dead elk, by the side of the road. After 15 minutes or so, one car passed. Fifteen minutes later, another car stopped. It was driven by the wife of a pilot, headed to the airport to get her husband. She took us to the nearest Cum N Go, where there was cell service. A trucker on a long haul overheard us calling AAA, and offered us a ride. He drove us back to the car to get our suitcases, and when I said the elk was huge, he said gently, actually, that’s a baby. (There was a second elk right in front of it that we did not hit.) The kids started wailing again. He drove us to our hotel and told us about his girlfriend, who he wanted to propose to when he had more money. We listened to country music. The kids slept on the trucker’s blankets in the back. When we arrived, he didn’t want any money — he thanked us for the conversation. (My husband insisted on giving him money anyway.) This is not relevant to Sumac’s wonderful story, but I like that it is a story of human connection. The second car that passed us stopped and a woman helped us. The first person who overheard our story stepped up and helped us. We want to live in the kind of civilization in which people are kind, and apologies are part of the social glue that help us create and maintain that world.

]]>