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So, I ran over a deer on the way to work this morning.

I didn’t actually kill the deer. Someone else did that already, and left a pile of deer parts in the middle of the road. I didn’t even try to drive around it. Maybe I’m not the sharpest tine on the combine, but it took a couple seconds of peering into the sunrise to make sense of the rapidly-approaching oversized lump in the roadway. By then the only way to avoid it was to drive into oncoming traffic — not a good trade. I had to take my chances with the dead deer, so I centered my car as best I could and mowed right over the top of it.

Unfortunately my little car doesn’t have quite enough ground clearance to pass a deer underneath. Just when I thought I’d made it I heard a sickening thwack sound and felt what I guess was deer skin tearing at about 30 mph. I think the carcass didn’t move, but the top part stood up a bit when it caught on my car frame, and then plopped back down after I’d passed, minus whatever bits of fur and etc. might still be stuck to my undercarriage. No, I’m not crawling beneath the car to check. But I did smell something a little funky a couple miles later.

I took a different route home, and nearly ran down a rooster.