Okay, that was just fucking COOL.

[apocalypsos]

So I'm coming back to the apartment, and I got off the bus across the highway to stop at CVS and pick up a couple of things. And I cross the street to go to the pedestrian walkway over the highway when I spot something lying on the sidewalk near the ramp.

Looked like a bird ... turned out to be a freakin' bat.

At first, I thought, "Aw, poor thing," because I was positive it was dead, lying on the hot sidewalk in the sun at four in the afternoon like it was.

Nope. The poor little thing (seriously, he was no bigger than a hamster) was just lying there panting, clutching the sidewalk with his little claws like he'd gone on a tiny nocturnal bender and woken up on a ground that just would not stop spinning.

So after an appropriate amount of worried cooing, I ripped the cover off my notebook so that I could, at the very least, pick him up and put him in the grass in the shade where he might hold out until nighttime. Luckily, though, a couple of little nudges with the cardboard and he hissed at me and took off.

Lucky little bastard. Anybody else probably would have screamed or squished him or something. :)

EDIT: Guys? There's a lot of you to go around, so ... well ... a little help? Please?