What a welcome back from my vacation!
After a week of sleeping in, drinking egg nog and playing with my son, it came as quite a jolt when the alarm went off at 3 this morning. But after a coke and some cheerios (odd combination, I know), I was out the door and on my way.
But just as I rounded the corner and turned out of the neighborhood, I found my heart skipping a beat as I slammed the breaks to avoid colliding with a deer. For a few brief seconds the deer stared into my eyes and I into his. Then, realizing he had not been killed, the deer took off. The problem was that he took off prancing slowly down the road….RIGHT IN THE PATH OF MY CAR.
Due to the massive snow drifts in the other lane, I had little choice but to drive six miles an hour with white tail and deer butt looking me in the face.
Fortunately, the deer turned left no Shawnee Mission Parkway and I turned right. Welcome back Jeff!
December 29th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Deer are supposed to be graceful animals. I lucked out and found the one that was clumsy as hell. A few weeks after I had purchased my Saturn, I was driving to a buddy’s house, rolling along a 45MPH street with woods on both sides. I saw the deer coming from the woods. I knew it was too late to stop in time. Yet I jammed my feet on the brakes, and braced for impact… and no crash happened. The next thing I remember, I was past the deer. Where was the deer? He had tried to jump the guardrail, clipped his front hoofs, and faceplanted into the shoulder of the road. The deer was standing up doing the deer equivalent of “no one saw that, right?”
I didn’t have to stare at deer ass for a mile, though.