Yes, Deer

Lorelai: Sweetie you're never gonna find the deer.
Rory: Well, I'm gonna try.
Lorelai: Well, I'm in heels!
Rory: Well, stay in the car.
Lorelai: It's dangerous in the car with all the kamikaze deer running around... [gets out of the car]
Rory: I have to find it.
Lorelai: Alright, wait up! So what does the deer look like? Huh? Does it have any distinguishing marks - besides the word 'Jeep' imprinted on its forehead?

—Gilmore Girls, "The Deer Hunters" (10/26/00)

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Because she didn't have enough to deal with yesterday, what with the impending surgery:

Yesterday morning, GF was enroute to the doctor's for an appointment. She was headed up the Jones Falls Expressway and was about at the point where it meets up with the Beltway, when a deer leaped into the roadway from the side. She barely had enough time to react, braking hard and swerving and all, and she managed not to collide with it.

What she didn't count on, however, was the other deer that wasn't able to stop in time to avoid colliding with her.

This second deer crashed into the rear passenger quarter-panel area and did damage to that panel, the wheel well, and the rear bumper. The deer, of course, is dead. The police report says that, naturally, nothing much can be done about something like that, so she's not at fault. GF has a sore neck from the vehicle being bashed into from the side rear.

There are two bright sides to all of this:

1. She was already on the way to the doctor anyway, so she didn't have to wait long to get checked out.
2. She wasn't driving her own car. That one's in the shop (again). She was driving her father's pickup truck. So now it's his headache.

Comments

[yellojkt]

Deer on the Jones Falls? Who knew Ruxton was such a wildlife refuge? That is horrible, horrible luck.

[Johnny]

Glad to hear she's Okay! We could really use some barriers around that spot. A friend of mine rolled his car at that exact spot last fall to avoid a dead deer in the road. He took out a lightpole and got a bill for it. He was pretty busted up.