After the difficulties getting up recently, I was quite impressed with how promptly I managed to drag myself from my warm, cozy bed in the dim half-light of morning. Showered, breakfast I was heading out the door when Julian kindly texted me to tell me to get up, and driving over to Hopcroft Holt to leave my car for the nice men to fix the wheel bearing. So far, so good…
I forget what we were talking about around 7:30, when, driving down a country road towards Bletchingdon when a dark shape veers in from the left and smashes through the windscreen. A deer, and it must have been a big one, had charged across the field, scaled the hedgerow (which was not far off the height of a deer fence) hit Julian’s car and run off across the road and into the next field, leaving us with a deer shaped impression on bonet and windscreen, a defective windscreen wiper, not much left in the way of a wing mirror and a bit of fur round the edges.
Two and a half hours later, I stroll into work, leaving Julian to follow his car to Autoglass, to find that tales of our morning adventures have preceded us and already circulated the office…
So what’s for lunch? Venison?
What a terrifying experience. That sort of thing happens a lot in the middle east (camels wandering onto the road)- and it’s no fun having a big animal landing on your car. You sound remarkably serene, considering what happened – I would probably have had to go home. Anyway, relieved that it was only the car that was hurt – and it got off lightly, too.
🙂
the clock is out by an hour on this thing – I’m on my lunch break 😉
Yeah, yeah, keep telling yourself that, the judge might believe you…!
We know the truth though! *grins*
I nearly had that happen several times on the way to school last year. I was shaken up all day. Thankfully, neither of you were hurt.
This happened to me too once. The deer kept going but I guess died shortly afterwards. My housemates at the time said they were going to find it and put the head in my bed, but actually one went back and got it and took it to the hunt kennels to feed to the hounds (he was into that sort of thing).
I was disturbed that when I told a colleague I had hit a deer he thought I had said an ‘old dear’, my attitude would presumably have seemed a bit callous to him 🙂
I think animals that have decided to end it all lurk in wait for vegetarians.
unlucky…
wow, what a story, i didnt even think those kind of things happened in real life!! i must admit id have been shaking in my boots after crashing into something like a deer! and i probably wouldnt have gone to work, thats for sure!
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