The Cat on the Road

Here's a story I got from my brother that apparently happened to a guy he worked with. True or not, it definitely makes a good story.
  
Apparently this dude had shown up for work a half hour late one Monday morning, but lucky for him he had an excellent excuse.  It seems he had been driving a little fast on the way to work that morning and hadn't seen the neighbor's cat as it sprinted across the road.  He swerved and hammered on the brakes but still hit the poor animal....

The Bridge

The old man stood, leaning on his pole in the bow of his small craft, gazing intently across the wide river at the massive structure. Dozens of men were crawling all over it like so many ants on a stick.

He remembered a time when men weren’t so proud - a time when they accepted there were things they didn’t understand, things they could not do. Now it seemed as though there was nothing they wouldn’t attempt. They seemed to believe there was nothing they couldn’t s...