Delicious cautionary tale of semantic awareness

A dear friend has sent me a favorite story from one of Pete Seeger's books:

A man is driving down a narrow one-lane country road. He sees a car come round the corner toward him. As it came closer, he saw it was a woman driver. So he’s gallant; he goes in the ditch with two wheels and stops. As the other car passes, the woman stuck her head out the window and shouted, “Pig!”

The man was shocked. Adrenalin shot through his body. He angrily jammed his foot on the gas, zoomed out of the ditch, down the road, around the corner.

And ran into the pig.