Last night ( Archived) (2)

I noticed a car going very slowly down the road in front of my house and right by my driveway they stopped and shut their lights off. It was hard to see through the leaves of the Magnolia tree in front of my house so I couldn't tell who it was or what they were doing. Then about a half a minute later another car came down the road going in the same direction and they too stopped about 4 car lengths behind the first car and also shut off their lights. This was getting kind of creepy and I started to get worried that maybe they were up to no good or maybe it was a swat team getting ready to invade my dwelling.

Every once in a while I saw the flicker of a light coming from the cars like maybe from a cell phone or lighting a cigarette. I figured they were communicating with each other and probably waiting for backup.

I decided to investigate so I quietly snuck out of the house and stood in the dark for a minute to get my eyes accustomed to the darkness and slowly, stealthily made my way up the driveway toward the road. I was confident that I couldn't be seen because I was wearing dark clothes. There were fireflies everywhere and I hoped they wouldn't give me away.

I got up to the road and the first car was gone but it was too dark to see if the other car was there unless I walked across the road. I didn't want to do that because then they might see me back-lighted from the glow from the stars. I thought "what the heck, I have as much right to be on the road as they do" so I slowly crossed over the road where I could see the car clearly. But there was no car.
Then it dawned on me, I wasn't seeing headlights going on & off, it was fireflies. I made my way back to the house hoping I wouldn't walk smack into a tree.