{"id":179,"date":"2023-11-20T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2023-11-20T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T03:12:08","slug":"oh-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/20\/oh-deer\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Deer."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hunting season has been in full swing for several weeks, and scads of bow hunters have been tramping through the woods of my county for that long.\u00a0 Rifle season just started in the last couple of days, and that has caused a lot of the deer population locally to be on the move.\u00a0 Since we have an Interstate near us, there have been an uptick of sightings (and encounters) with deer going from point A to B crossing this busy thoroughfare.<\/p>\n

This morning, when I arrived at work, my supervisor’s Nissan Rogue wasn’t there.\u00a0 Usually if that’s the case, it means something ominous has happened.\u00a0 He’s had a myriad of health care issues in the past 10 years that I’ve worked in his department, from heart to cancer.\u00a0 Basically soup to nuts.\u00a0 He’s pretty predicatable in his attendance, so if his car isn’t there, something’s amiss.<\/p>\n

When I clocked in however, I spotted his jacket hanging up.\u00a0 So, he’s (t)here, but his car isn’t?\u00a0 The mystery was solved as I went to the department manager’s office to collect my morning reports.\u00a0 He’s sitting at one of the computers, his back to me.\u00a0 As soon as he\"\"<\/a> saw me, he said he had a question for me.\u00a0 Could he impose on me to give him a ride home?\u00a0 Of course the answer is yes, he’s done a lot for me over the years, it’s the least I can do….which begged the question of why.<\/p>\n

Well, he hit a deer this morning.\u00a0 Doing 65 mph, and his car was to put it mildly, totaled.\u00a0 Good fortune was on his side, or someone\/something was keeping an eye on him as only the steering wheel air bag deployed and the deer basically exploded on impact.\u00a0 He managed to limp the car to the side of the road and was able to call 9-1-1.\u00a0 The dispatcher sent a deputy sherriff (who initially went to the wrong way, but managed to find him after turning around at the next town up the road) who was able to get a wrecker to the scene and even gave him a ride to work after the car was towed away.\u00a0 So essentially he wasn’t even late.\u00a0 (The guy goes in to work at least an hour early every shift, he’s been doing that for years.\u00a0 Yea, I don’t get it either)<\/p>\n

Over the course of the day, we talked more and more about the whole thing.\u00a0 He disappeared for a few minutes around 10 and presented me with a $20 gift card to compensate me for my trouble.\u00a0 Completely unnecessary, but I thanked him regardless.\u00a0 I myself have had 2 run-ins with deer over the years, though neither of them were ever as devastating an accident like this.\u00a0 One ran into my ’89 Ford Escort, and the other I grazed with my ’87 Ford Bronco II.\u00a0 After work (I managed to get off 30 minutes early so he didn’t have to cool his heels waiting for my shift to end) we went down to the garage where he’d had the Rouge towed, to collect items from the car in case the insurance company decided to declare the vehicle totaled and not bother to repair it.\u00a0 ‘Rob’ (not his real name) showed me the printout from the garage, they’d already done a detailed estimate of how much it would cost to completely repair the damage.\u00a0 I about fainted.\u00a0 $15,000<\/strong>.\u00a0 Given the fact he had a head-on impact with a deer, it was more than likely the insurance company isn’t going to want to get into that.<\/p>\n

Even just now I did a quick and dirty evaluation on how much the trade-in value of the vehicle would be (without the deer damage) and the Kelley Blue Book website suggested $6-8k at best.\u00a0 So it’s more likely they’re going to take a pass on fixing it.\u00a0 I’m sure I’ll hear about it when the decision is made.\u00a0 Rob told me he’d like it to be fixed.\u00a0 I don’t think it’s going to go his way, but time will tell.\u00a0 After picking up his items, I got him home safe and sound.\u00a0 We talked a bit more then parted ways.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I’m just glad he’s ok.<\/p>\n

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