The 'Dog' That Attacked Us on the Inter State

So, my God Daughter number two of four, had her eight grade graduation last week, which my Mother and I went to, because that's what we do - we support the youngsters in our family in what ever way we can. 

My oldest brother lives about an hour and a half  North of us and my Mom decides she is going to drive me and her both in her van - not a mini-van but not a full van either.  I don't know what kind of van it is - all I know is it holds a lot of stuff.  Which is what she wants it to do so she can haul a lot of stuff  Up North to her other house.....you can see a bit about it here.  Well, maybe not so much about her house....

Getting back to the subject at hand, the 'dog' that attacked us on the way...we were about 35-40 minutes from having left home as we are driving on the Inter State highway when out of the corner of my left eye (I'm the passenger in the front seat) I see this weird looking 'dog' charging at us as we are doing 65mph on the road......and all I could think about in the 2.3 seconds is, the dog is going to be yelping, other people on the road are going to be damaged, WE are going to be damaged, there is going to be a car pile-up, PEOPLE are going to be hurt we don't even know, as I start to call out, 'Look out!", this 'dog' hits us!

I have never been in a moving accident with another car or, for that matter, ANYTHING!  My Mom saw the 'dog' also - probably about the same time, and the van only swerves a bit out of the center lane she was in.  Luckily, no one was next to us on the road - probably because the people behind us all saw it coming! 

I felt the thump of the impact, and the swerve of the van and immediately check the passenger side outside mirror and see something tumble across the freeway----get up, hurdle the middle cement barrier and realize it's NOT a dog but a DEER!!!  In the biggest populated city in our state, this DEER had t-boned my Mom's van and is still alive!!! 

Needless to say, my Mom and I were a bit shook up.....we didn't know what kind of damage was done to the van....was anyone else hurt....were WE hurt?  She instantly pulled over, but by that time, we were on an incline for a bridge - she wanted to get out and immediately look, but I told her you can't get out of your car on the Inter State!  So she pulled off and into a near by gas station. 

We get out of her van and she immediately wants me to call my oldest brother to tell him we would be a bit late.  I get him on the phone and he is asking all kinds of questions - was anyone injured?  Did we need a tow truck?  What kind of damage?  As my Mom and I are walking all around the van, in my disbelief, I kept telling my oldest brother...... there was no damage....no one was injured.....nothing!!!   The only signs that something had happened was there was a bit of deer saliva on the back windows of the van....BUT THAT WAS IT!!!  

So what does my brother say?  Big deer hunter that he is,  (and my middle brother too) , "So put the deer in the back of the van and bring it up here so we can have fresh venison for the summer!!!! "  When I told him the deer ran away after he t-boned us, he was a bit disappointed, but he was just happy everyone was okay and so were we!!!!  

We made it up to the graduation party and with a story to tell once we were there - Thank God!!! No one was injured and we have a story to tell with a happy ending