Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for March 27, 2025

“I’d like to be a fly on the wall … instead of the windshield.”

We used to “fly” our hand out the open window. 99.9% of the time, no problem, but 1 time in 1000 you’d get hit by some flying bug. It was never possible to know WHICH bug though…

What was your first clue?

Looks like a heck of a trip!

some times you are the windshield, sometime the bug

SIck! LOL!

I ran into somebody along the way.

Actually something ran into me & took me on this road trip with them.

Looking a little ragged, there!

Looks like there may have been a collision with a 4th stage locust…. or a wing nut.

JUST FELL OFF A WINDSHEILD BY THE LOOKS OF HER!

Time flies like the wind.

Yeah, spent most of my time between the wiper blade and the windshield.

He was a “fly~’by~nite”

and survived. :{

I can’t remember the last time a bug hit my windshield. Are there fewer bugs or are the cars more aerodynamic now, and the bugs just get blown up and over them?

Motorcycle riding in North Carolina on the Outer Banks. Riding with a group. Front rider took a seagull into the chest at 60. Bird died, he wound up with cracked ribs and sternum.

Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.

What’s the last thing to go through a bug’s mind when it hits a windshield? It’s butt.

Last thing that goes through a bugs mind when it hit’s the windsheild? Depends on angle of impact, could be a wing or rectum.

He is why I rode my motorcycle with a full face helmet and shield behind a windhammer fairing.

Bits of gravel are unforgiving.

Overcome by a windshield

What’s the buzz, tell me what’s a happenin’?

He made it back on a wing and a prayer.

Ouch, came home on the windshield eh ! ;-)

Riding a motorcycle with the visor down, you collect a lot of bugs. SPLAT!

Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.

Boeing had some coatings they were trying on the leading edge (front) of the wings that would help reduce the drag caused by turbulence. They painted patches of different coatings and wanted to measure their resistance to insects sticking to the wing. So they flew the plane low over some swampland and then they hired a college intern in insectology(?) to examine each splatter, measure the size, characterize the adhesion, and try to identify what insect it was. So you can get paid for identifying bug splats.