It have been lucky for many years that I have not been involved in any kind of auto accident. My luck ran out the night before last on my way home from work.

While pulling away from a stop light I was suddenly struck hard on the passenger side of the car. I was in the outside lane and was watching the cars behind me so to move over to the right before the next light a block away when, *BLAMM*…. The car shook and my head snapped right, to only see the flash of a white spot moving away. WTF?!?!?!?!

With the cars suddenly stopped, I pulled over and got out to see the damage wasn't really that bad. All the damage was confined to the front passenger door, not a scratch in front of or behind it. Mirror torn off, door dented and calling card stuck under the door handle, ….. and considering I was hit by a deer, it was really very little when knowing what damage CAN be done by such a collision.

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While encounters between deer and cars is not uncommon, it is where this took place. The middle of a big city with nothing around for miles in all directions but more city is not the normal habitat for deer around here. E. 185 St with it's four gas stations adjacent the interstate freeway and all businesses down the street and nothing but houses on city lots is the setting.

I took pics from both sides of the freeway and marked my location when my hitchhiker tried to get in the night before.

So what unexpected encounters have you had with nature?

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That's more hair than your car has seen in years!

I'm glad you weren't hurt, and that the damage was as minimal as it was. You were very lucky.

Many of you know that Mrs. WI has been driving a school bus for about 11 years now and her scariest interaction with wildlife took place three or so years ago when on a dark fall morning she had a wild turkey crash through her windshield. The turkey was killed on impact and the windshield obviously needed to be replaced.


As did the underwear of the driver.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

I've been lucky.

The only animal I've ever run over was a female squirrel.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

And you know it was female how..................? "rolleyes2

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I didn't hear the nuts pop.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.