The Deer Hit ME!!

I'm cruisin' along...minding my own business...and then....(theme to Jaws)

da dum......dddaaaa dumm... dadum
dadum dadum.. BAM!

A renegade doe hurled herself over the k-rail, straight into the side of my truck, went under the steer tire, bent the lower step, stripped the bolts, put cracks and holes through various fiberglass parts, whipped under the drives, then landed under the tandems. Eek...with 43,930 lbs. of liquid soap in the trailer....one doesn't slam on the brakes unless one wants to flip the load and make the highway smell Zestfully clean!
I know it doesn't look like much in the pictures, but this will trap me here in Washington over the 4th of July holiday. :( I wanted to be in Vegas. (Ah well...tis the life of the road.) So of course the mechanic asked me if I felt bad about hitting the deer. ??? (As if, yes, I go out of my way to hit innocent, woodland, forest creatures. That's right buddy...yesterday I went off-roading w/ my 18 wheeler through the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie Forest searching for a bear, a badger, a duck, a hunting dog, and a jack-rabbit. Call it the wildlife scavenger hunt of the century! All I could find was this lousy animal!) Well no, I don't really feel that bad because........ THE DEER HIT ME! I had to make 2 insurance claims, lose over a week's pay, talk to 14 different people, and take the bus, in a strange city, to the hotel!!! All in all, I'd say it was fair.

The next clueless wonder meanders over to the truck and asked what I had hit to cause this kind of damage. I looked him straight in the eye........gave him a sly smile.......and told him in a strained voice, "this damage was caused from running over the last guy that asked that question!"

(Here's your sign!)

*wink I'm mean...but I'm cute! Happy 4th ya'll!!!

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