Oh Deer

Who hits four deer in about two years? ...with the same vehicle? ...in the same area?

You might think that we'd get really upset and even a little ticked off every time we hit a deer but you'd be wrong...

{Photo from last summer.}

Mark and I, along with the kids, were on our way back from DL the other night and saw a deer standing right by the road and it just slow-as-can-be meandered right in front of us as we drove by. And we smacked it pretty good.

And we laughed.

Because it's pretty darn funny to hit four deer in less than two years. Not so funny for the deer, maybe, but sometimes you just have to laugh.

Seriously?! Who does that?

I can't wait to get a new (old) vehicle. I'm more than convinced that this one is jinxed, at this point.

{Photos from last summer. Nikayda taught herself how to do a front walkover and spent many hours practicing it.}

We lost the first bumper at the third deer. Replaced it with the forest green bumper from our old mini-van. (Our current one is plum color.) And, now this green one (pictured, above) was so trashed, Mark had to yank it off on the spot and throw it in the back with the kids.

And we laughed the whole way home. I'm still chuckling about it. Of all the luck in the world.

And, really, we're pretty fortunate if all that we lost is a headlight (in the third incident, as well), and a bumper.

or two.

The kids were with us all three times we hit deer on our way home from trips to DL (at dusk/night). The second incident was a near miss. As in a fraction of a second, on our road. I was driving that time and I had all the kids with me (minus Aria, since she didn't exist yet).

That one was just a few days after the first incident. And I was incredulous at our luck at that time. If I'd only known there would be two more!

The irony of it all is that we now have a plum color bumper on our van again after all this time. Mark was able to purchase an exact match from the junkyard today.

The only real criteria I have for our next vehicle is that I hope the windshield wipers work well and I'd also like the heat to regulate at a steady temperature inside during the winter time. And as a little luxury, it would be nice if the headlights were to shine more than twenty feet in front of us at night. {These ones are awful - although, unfortunately, that wouldn't have prevented these deer incidents.}

Comments

[Heidi]

ha! Sounds like you have some pretty high expectations for the next vehicle.

[Amy]

And we laughed.

Wow..heartless, much?