The other night I was watching television when I heard a thud outside. At first, I thought someone was playing their music too loudly as they passed our house. But I got up to peep out the window. In the darkness, I could see two cars parked just past our driveway and not far from our driveway, a crumpled figure in the road. I couldn’t tell if it was a dog, a fox, or a deer. It could even have been something that dropped off the back of a truck. I didn’t know.
Once those cars drove away, the headlights of the next passing car illuminated the deer in the road. It was still alive! We live on a road with no commercial businesses, but lots of homes and no small amount of traffic. While I wanted to run out there and assist the deer before it could get hit again, I didn’t want to get hit as happened recently to a motorist during broad daylight as he tried to assist a fellow driver. Also, while it wasn't a full grown male deer, I didn't know it's weight. And deer are wild animals.
Not knowing who to call, I did a search on my phone. I was seconds away from calling the police, when I looked out the door and saw that the deer was on its feet! One of my neighbors was attempting to turn into her driveway, but it was blocked by the deer. Another car came behind her and as so often happens this person was less patient and drove around her. The poor deer was literally frozen in headlights. But the second driver blew their horn and the deer scampered off. It ran up our driveway, across our front yard, and into the woods.
It was the most joyous moment I’ve experienced in far too long and I wanted to share it with all of you.
