The Swarm of Bees (Applied counterfactuals, from Godel, Escher, Bach)

The Factual: Driving down a country road, his car ran right through a swarm of bees.

A few possibilities from the Counter-factual array:

• Lucky the windows were not open
• He wished he'd remembered to close the windows
• Lucky I wasn't on my bike.
• Too bad I didn't come along 5 seconds earlier
• If the swarm had been a deer I'd have been killed
• I would rather have collided with a rosebush
• Too bad those bees weren't dollar bills
• Lucky those bees weren't made of cement.
• Glad I wasn't that swarm of bees.