So, six days ago, I hit a deer...in the boss's Ford Ranger:oops::cry:
It was more like a 50-50 that the deer hit me. I was going between 25 and 30mph on a small gravel road. The deer's head appeared in my field of vision just in front of my right headlight, clearly going on a sort of intercept course, only about 30º off of my course. I slammed on the brakes, but being on gravel with ABS, it didn't stop very fast. The impact made no memorable noise. The dog in the passenger footwell wasn't even perturbed. No sound was made on impact. The deer's head/neck sort of wrapped around the front of the vehicle before snapping back. Aside from some whiplash, the deer appeared to be fine, and used the energy of the rebound to propel itself into the woods, no doubt with a new goal of scheduling an appointment with its physical therapist.
As for the truck...
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Just a small impact crack in the right turn signal!! :D
I was
so relieved. Looked on RockAuto, eBay, and did a few local junkyard searches immediately upon arrival home, and decided after seeing that a new turn signal was only $16, that I would tell the boss and offer to pay for it, though I didn't think she'd notice. If it'd been $100, I wouldn't have told a soul, but for $20 it's a cheap way to earn some good karma. :lol: Six days and $20 later, I have the new signal lamp from RockAuto, and it installed in about 5 minutes.
I'm impressed with both how easy working on a new Ford was, and with how lucky I was not to have caused more significant damage.