Okay, so today I was supposed to go to Tallahassee for work. Turns out, someone had other plans for me. I'm driving down the high way within a pack of cars. We are driving in front of an airport out here. Right as I inch up on the airport, I notice a deer. A doe. I can see her very plainly and she's standing right next to the road. As I'm watching her, I can see into her eyes.
Suddenly, I know something bad is going to happen. The deer darts out in front of traffic, right in between two cars, and slams right into the passenger side of mine.
Seriously. The thing hit me!
I freaked, but not enough to slowly pull off into the median and call EVERYONE I know, including the police. I'm crying, my car's damaged, but really I'm worried about the deer. Thankfully, someone stops and takes her out of the middle of the road (as she was dead). I start balling again. I mean, I feel like I killed it! Everyone around here says that the deer down here are suicidal. It's common for them to jump into traffic. It's just...weird. I mean, it ran right in between two other cars to my right, totally missing them. Of course, thankfully it didn't hit them as the accident would of been worse (a side dent like mine is nothing compared to a head-on collision).
And, that's when I remembered something I learned in my Psychology class: You aren't safe in numbers. The more people that are around, the less likely someone is to help.
I believe that fully now. I watched as the cars that were with me on the road kept going. No one did anything! I'm thankful that a guy, coming in the opposite direction who DIDN'T SEE IT, was nice enough to stop and ask me if I was okay (and helped get the deer out of the road). He also stayed until the police came. Also, thankfully my dad was in town and came to see if I was okay.
I'm not really upset that those people didn't help, stop, or possibly even gave it a second thought. It just proves something about human nature. Thankfully, I wasn't hurt (just shaken up). My car, though...well, let's just say that I can't fully open the passenger door. The deer? Well, the man who stopped was a hunter and I let him keep her. I didn't want her. I'm just glad she's not going to waste.
I feel really bad still. Scared, shocked, and sleepy. I missed my trip to Tallahassee for work, but I got to spend time with the fam. I'm still really shaken up about it whenever I think about it. It's scary, you know? A lot of worse things could of happened. Also, I was running late (I was supposed to be meeting up with some people and left late), so that makes it even freakier...oh well. Life is funny like this, right?
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2 comments:
Eh. I probally shouldn't post here as I shouldn't be bothering you. -.-'
I also feel bad I missed the post but oh well.
I'm sorry about you and the poor deer. :'/
Up here in MI we get them all the time and its just a part of life that you have to deal with.
I drive about 45 min to work every day along the main highway and I've accidently hit deer twice.
The first time was at night and I nearly went off the rode and into a ditch upon impact.
He was a big buck and I felt sorry for him. :/
The car was totaled and I felt terrible.
I remembered when I got to work the next day some of my co-workers who were sort of red-neckish told me I should have saved the body and used its meat and kept the antlers. -.-'
The second time was a doe too, leading a smaller deer across the road.
And that didn't end up too well either. It was in the morning going to work and after I hit her it took her a while to die and was heartbreaking to watch.
I tried to call an animal hospital or something and have them send out an ambulance, but one of the guys who hit his brakes behind me told me no one was going to be able to do anything about her, so yeah. :'/
So yeah, unexepected things can sometimes jump out at you in life.
They say that its how you deal with it that counts and the way you dealt with it was pretty natural.I'm glad you got to spend some good time with your family afterwards though, I hope it helped.
TracelessTiger
Maybe that stupid deer stopped you from getting into a terrible accident further down the road where you would have been terribly injured and all that good ol' chicken pie.
This entry made that one song from The Sound of Music get stuck in my head. You know the one.
-K
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