Ficlets

No, it’s not a joke, it really happened. In downtown Chicago, no less:

For one day, at least, the roadrunner was safe. It seems the coyote was hankering for another kind of fast food. Employees and customers at a downtown Chicago Quiznos sandwich shop were stunned to see a coyote walk through the propped-open front door Tuesday afternoon and lie down in a cooler stocked with fruit juice and soda.

“It wasn’t aggressive at all,” restaurant manager Bina Patel told the Chicago Tribune. “It was just looking around.”

Employees and customers calmly cleared out of the restaurant, though some took the time to finish their sandwiches and snap some cell-phone photos, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

What I find interesting that no one seems to be noting is that the coyote seemed to have a good idea what it was doing: i.e., it walked into the store and sat down in a cooler because presumably it knew that was a fine way to get cool. That’s a pretty smart coyote, or at least one that’s been a cooler before. That’s a wily coyote. Possibly a super genius.

Anyway: Wild animals + Urban locales = potential ficlet goodness. Get to it.