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Dammit Bambi

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Welp, that just happened.  I was doing an extra long bike commute to work after switching the bike over to race configuration in preparation for USAT Age Group Nationals next weekend and a deer hit me.  I didn't hit the deer.  Bambi hit me.  I was cruising along just as the sun was about to rise when a deer came out of nowhere and ran in front of me.  I was about to react when I saw her friend out of the corner of my eye.  Her friend, Bambi, was 5 feet away from me and charging full steam ahead.  I was going 26mph.  I got to watch as she buried her head into my thigh, crumpled up her entire neck and threw me off the bike.  I think she was Canadian.  It was a perfect hockey move.  She body checked me in the middle of the road.  After laying in the road screaming my head off I eventually gave up on help.  None of the lights were coming on in the houses I could see.  I got up, retrieved my bike and was grateful to see ...