Jaci Dawn

I was on my way home tonight from work when I fell in behind a pickup truck pulling a walled trailer. It was a brown trailer with six-foot walls and open on top, a gate in the back that was latched and ratcheted shut, full size wheels & tires. Black plastic bags full of something were stacked in the bed of the trailer and a worn blue tarp was tied loosely over the top of the black plastic. It flapped and fluttered in the current of air caused by driving.

It was the objects in the black plastic that caught my eye: they were very humanoid: head and torso, stacked on top of each other right up to the top of the trailer walls. I got the Heebie Jeebies just following the rig and was quite relieved when I passed it and left it in my dust (so to speak). All I could think of was the Pea Pod People.

I came home and all was well. Took the dog out to play and came back in, started doing dishes.

And I couldhear Katie Couric’s voice in the background: “…Invasion of the Body Snatchers…”

YIKES! First the truck and trailer and now it’s on the news?! Talk about Heebie-Jeebies!

Sadly, the news was really about Kevin McCarthy who starred in the 1956 version of Invasion. He died today. He was 96.

At least, that’s what they’re telling us. I’m not so sure after my commute and the eerir timing of the news break. I feel likerunning out into the street and yelling:

“Can’t you see, everyone?! They’re here already! You’re next!”

‘Cause I’m telling you: that trailer had bodies in black plastic wrapped up tight…