The Zoo over Ambuscade Street

The Evil Deer are out of control.

As I hinted at last week, I had a bit of a run-in with them. Not literally, thankfully, but it was a near thing. I was going home, in broad daylight, and pondered that I hadn't seen any deer lately. But I was Really Tired that day, so I didn't think much of it - it took all my energy just to concentrate on driving the last few miles home. I was less than a quarter mile from my house, on my road, when it suddenly came to me that something was wrong. Badly wrong. I couldn't, however, identify what it was, exactly, that was so wrong.

Then I realized that the brown flickering in front of me was, in fact, a giant herd of deer. At least two dozen, probably more, all in full view and right in front of me, preparing to stomp my car into oblivion. Whoops.

Yesterday morning was something similar. It was really dark, and really, really foggy - fog thick enough that I couldn't really see more than about five feet in front of my car. I pulled reeeeeeally slowly out of my driveway, and drove as slow as I could down my road without stalling out the engine. Then, out of nowhere, deer. Deer everywhere. Then they were gone. But just when I thought it was safe to start driving again...more deer. It took me ten minutes to drive the 7/10 of a mile to the corner. Then, again, I was coming out of the S-curve From Hell right past the corner when...deer. Just one. I think it was taunting me.