Groundhog Day

I'm in Missouri this week. Off to a bad start -- I hit a groundhog with my rental car. It was late at night and he came across two expressway lanes and ran smack into the car, cracking the plastic cowling on the right front.

Bad luck for me, worse for the groundhog.

I told my banker clients the whole story. I was expecting a little sympathy but they laughed and said it was really quite rude of me. They said they wouldn't go to Pennsylvania and run over Punxatawney Phil, so I had no business coming to Missouri and running down their groundhog.

They said the least I could have done was field dress it and take it to one of the local restaurants for the daily special!