GreensleevesSo that’s what happened!
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 9:55 amI was driving east on West Central Park Avenue about by Assumption High School in Davenport when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw some kind of brown shape, like a deer or a big brown dog, headed right for our car.
I flinched and nearly steered the car into the right-hand lane to avoid this perceived threat when – as quickly as it appeared – it vanished.
“Did you see that?” I said to my husband.
“No, what?”
“There was this brown thing – a deer or a dog or something. Didn’t you see it?”
He said he’d seen a flash of something but nothing more.
My heart was pounding and hands were shaking because, really, whatever it was had been headed straight at our car.
But now it was gone.
As I continued driving, I slowed for the stoplight at Harrison Street. A van pulled up next to us, with the driver motioning for us to roll down our window.
My husband did so, and said, “Was that a deer?”
“Yes,” the man in the van said. “And it jumped right over your car.”
Oh my gosh. The wonders of nature.