Squashed!

Glad that's over," said Daniel as he, Matt, and Josh left church. "Let's go have some fun."

Ten minutes later, they were on the footbridge over the highway. Opening his backpack, Daniel said, "I took these out of the 'Free Veggies' box at church. Let's throw them off the bridge at passing cars!"

"Cool!" said Josh.

"There's nothing cool about vegetables," said Matt. "Besides, we'll get in trouble."

"Nah, my brother does it and he never gets caught. Watch this." He grabbed a cucumber and dropped it on a car passing below. It hit the trunk
smoosh!

"Cool!" said Josh again. He tossed a ripe tomato at a pickup truck and watched it disintegrate on the truck bed.

"Your turn," said Daniel, shoving a large round squash at Matt.

Matt hesitated. It did look like fun, and so far, nothing bad had happened, so he dropped it. But there was no smoosh. Instead, there was a sickening thud that shattered the windshield, and the squeal of brakes as the car skidded onto the roadside in a clou