Oh deer!

[Erinesque]

I left my house in South Carolina at 2 am to make the trek, as usual, to Kingsport, TN. Everything was going well, and I was making good time on interstate 26. Until I got to Buncombe county.

A deer jumped the cement wall that separates the eastbound/westbound lanes, at 3:55 AM, and hit my car! I was in the middle of nowhere! I was able to keep driving the remaining 50 miles to get to Kingsport and was able to see the damage. The front fender is almost off, the headlight is broken, and I knew I would not be able to drive it the 149 miles back home.

My insurance company, fortunately, was able to get it towed, but I had to wait from 5am to 12 pm for the tow truck to arrive, so I stayed at a restaurant called Shoney’s. I stayed for hours, and was able to get breakfast and lunch there while I waited.

Finally the tow truck got there, and we began the drive back home. Two hours later, we got back home, to the collision center and car rental agency. So, 15 hours after I left, I am back at my own home!

[Sandman]

Why do i sense a Rick & Morty episode here...

[dalesys]

When I was the repair "manager" at the Confusion Shack Ratio Center (ca 1978), our educators hit a deer with one's VW Beetle. They were so lucky it didn't come through the windshield.

[Erinesque]

Well I have never seen Rick and Morty, so I’m not entirely sure of the reference. It was a day that makes for a good story, now that it’s over. It was stressful while it was occurring.

This was my first encounter with a deer, and it sure was scary; the possibilities are what are scariest; like it coming through the windshield.

[protege]

They were so lucky it didn't come through the windshield.

There have been instances where that's happened, and the vehicle's occupants usually don't fare very well. My dad knew a guy who hit one in a Triumph TR7. The car's wedge shape meant that he knocked the legs out from under it, rolling the deer up the hood through the windshield, and out the rear window. Considering the massive damage to the car, I don't know how the guy didn't get seriously hurt.

[Food Lady]

I saw a huge buck on the side of the road the other day. I think I was coming home from work. It was dark but I've trained my eyes to see them right away. Unfortunately the very first flash of thought is "Why is there a huge rock/person in beige overalls/tumbleweed* on the side of the road?" rather than "Oh, deer--slow down now," which would be more useful.

*This one is especially funny, as I live in Wisconsin. But my California-born brain still wants to see things as tumbleweeds. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Nunavut Pants]

I saw a huge buck on the side of the road the other day. I think I was coming home from work.

I first read that as the deer coming home from work. I was wondering how you knew that, and where it might have worked... Then my brain actually kicked in with the correct meaning of the sentence.

Sometimes I like the little stories my brain makes up more than reality...

[Food Lady]

I first read that as the deer coming home from work. I was wondering how you knew that, and where it might have worked... Then my brain actually kicked in with the correct meaning of the sentence.

Sometimes I like the little stories my brain makes up more than reality...

I'm laughing so hard right now because that's how my brain works sometimes, too.

I just remembered something that happened over the summer near me:

http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Mus...433865893.html

Maybe the deer was coming home from his job in the liquor dept.? My favorite comment from the local paper: "It's unknown if the deer was lost or simply thirsty."

[Jetfire]

Yesterday, I was heading in to work. I usually cut through a suburb to the main road leading to the bridge. It's a well developed area, about a block away from Main Street. Anyway, as I was driving along, I saw the car in front of me slow to a stop. I stopped as well and saw some movement ahead of us. At first I thought it was just kids jaywalking across the street (It was early enough the school buses were out doing pickups).

A moment later I clicked onto what I was actually seeing. A big doe and 3 smaller ones running across the street. They cut through the next yard, heading down the hill towards Main street and the river.

I wish I could've snapped some pictures; but I did call the local radio station to share a heads up of the local wildlife.

[Mental_Mouse]

Coming through the windshield is a worse problem with moose, they can do that to a fairly large car. Though I've heard that the worst thing to hit is a pig -- being low-slung, they can flip the car.

Around here in Virginia, deer on the roads are so common as to be unremarkable ("dog bites man"). I've often seen families or groups of young deer crossing or wandering the roads.