Snails

early morning and snails are crossing the sidewalk there are all sizes and i would guess age has something to do with size not all make it across, large and small young and old several mashed snails are on the sidewalk the snails do not move very fast at all their trails indicate that they are not crossing in a straight path or line in fact looking at their trails makes one wonder why they do not move in a straight line is it that they are intoxicated or maybe its a maneuver much the same as ships at sea use to avoid torpedos or maybe just possibly they continually forget where they are going or what they wanted to do in the first place when walking i try to avoid stepping on them but that requires me constantly looking down and that’s not always possible. but seeing the snail carnage it gives me pause as i must assume some make it across so naturally i must ask “where do escargot?”