Iguana Crossing

I’m sure you knew Pat was an animal lover…but did you know she’d risk life and limb to save poor defenseless creatures in a foreign land? Now, let me preface this story first with this, pedestrians do not have the right of way in Zambia. Sometimes, I think no one has the right of way, but people on foot definitely come last. No, wait, iguanas are last, unless Pat is around. So walking down a busy throughfare on the hospital grounds where speed has no limit, we notice a cute little iguana crossing the road. Pat in her animal loving heart decided that this little guy will surely be road kill if he is not helped across, so she steps out into the street, in front of a car, putting her hand out (the universal sign for stop, which in Zambia is the universal sign for crush my pelvis) and scoops the iguana into Kristin’s umbrella. Because the man driving is probably bewildered by this crazy white woman, somehow he stops, does not hit Pat, and the iguana safely makes it to the grass (for at least a few minutes).