Normally I post about the spiritual aspect of my life, but this was just too good to pass up! A deer hit me! Disclaimer, the deer is OK so I am totally fine saying things about its intelligence in doing so.
Lets paint a picture. Its 230 am and I am driving home. I am on Main Street Cedar City, Utah. I have just finished a very long, fun day filled with friends and very good birthday taquitos. As I am driving I see a deer in the road. Naturally I slow down and keep an eye on it as I pass. All of a sudden in the other peripheral I see a deer very close to the right side of my car, I feel a thump, and start freaking out. I immediately turn around to make sure that it is fine and it is already walking next to the other deer, check. Then I think about my car...
Just so you know I LOVE my car. Her name is Giselle and she is wonderful. I was filled with dread at the potential damage(and bills!) I jumped out and immediately began to inspect the front of my car, nothing! good! I go to bed and think of how lucky I was. I wake up in the morning, walk out to my car and see a pretty big dent in my rear passenger-side door.
Think about the timing of this. I was going 40 miles per hour, the deer hit my rear passenger door hard enough to dent it pretty bad, and missed the front of my car entirely. I haven't done the calculations but the deer had to be at least trotting along. There is no way it could have been walking and moved that far forward that fast.
The point of the story is the deer ran into me, I didn't run into it. I guess now we know who the superior species is!
This is funny! sorry about your car dent, but all things considered it could have turned out much worse for both parties!!! i hunt deer, and sometimes they surprise me with how clueless they can be!!
ReplyDeleteI think that hitting a deer is a right-of-passage for living in Utah! I know tons of people who have hit one, and I've hit one too but it's still shocking that they really do just jump out into your car!
ReplyDeleteSure it did. Haha, kidding! I am glad you both are okay! And sorry about the dent! That whole thing sounds crazy!
ReplyDeleteI've had to break for deer in the road before, but I've never had one hit me. That's insane. Hopefully you can get your car fixed without too much trouble. I really like how you wrote about it though, with a really cool perspective.
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