I finally hit a deer with my car tonight.<\/p>\n
Man, that line makes it look like I’ve been trying for years to make that happen! I guess, living in relatively rural NJ for several years, it was bound to happen. I always thought that I would be travelling some back road when it did, though. Tonight, I was heading down a pretty major street with plenty of businesses and homes on each side when I noticed brake lights coming on in front of me. As I began to slow, I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a deer standing on the right side of the road looking for a break in traffic. Within a second or two, it was darting out into traffic and on a collision course with my car. I wasn’t able to brake in time and the front of the CR-V hit the deer “dead on” (pun intended) as it ran in front of the vehicle. There wasn’t too much impact, but the deer actually flew off to the left side, landing in the road and skidding onto the curb. I didn’t get a chance to watch it, as I needed to see how bad the damage was to the car and continue to drive in order to get off the road. Looking forward again, I saw that the driver’s side of the hood was pushed back and actually covered a couple of inches of the windshield. At the same time, I felt that the car was still controllable, so I pulled into the right lane and into the first parking lot that I could find. As I got out of the car to survey the damage, the first thing I noticed was the deer hair all over the front of my car. Next, I saw and smelled the coolant dripping slowly, but steadily from the radiator. I was not happy.<\/p>\n
All of this would have been just a pain in the ass and merely quite inconvenient had I not been on my way to meet my sister and brother-in-law in Connecticut to pick up my mom so that she could spend the weekend (and my first Father’s Day as a dad!) with us. I had to call them on my sister’s cell phone to tell them to turn around since I would not be showing up at the meeting spot. This really sucked because we had really worked to make this happen around our schedules in addition to the fact that my mom has not seen the babies since late December.<\/p>\n
Now the fun really begins with all the calls to insurance and body shops and getting a rental car for the next week, at least. What a bummer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I finally hit a deer with my car tonight. Man, that line makes it look like I’ve been trying for years to make that happen! I guess, living in relatively rural NJ for several years, it was bound to happen. … Continue reading