An Almost Murder - What Does A Deer Have To Do With It?

January 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Okay, no more internet biz, no more blog, I will now write whatever I like.

Two years ago, I drove along a narrow two-lane highway on my way to work. As I approached near a curve, I saw a deer standing on the bicycle-lane roughly 20 meters away. He (*) already had one leg out on my lane. For some reason, I didn’t break nor slow down. I insisted that the deer would be frightened by human sight and loud noises and back into the grass or sprint quickly to the other side like dogs and cats. When I got nearer, I started slowing down a little waiting for the deer to get out of my way. But as the car inched closer, my deer calmly began to cross the street. Then I realized I had met a deer which either blind, deaf, disobedient or careless as hell. I swerved my steering wheel to the left lane. Not enough, I went off completely to the other side, luckily there was no car heading on the opposite direction. The closer I was and the more I tried to avoid the deer, the faster it approached my car. Finally, the deer jumped and crashed on the passenger side of my car. I screamed “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh” …. in my head and worried sick that I had murdered the deer. After regaining my composure, I glanced at the rearview mirror and saw the same deer standing on the other side of the road.
Phew!
Driving off for another five minutes, I sighted “Aha.” The deer was neither careless as hell, disobedient, blind nor deaf and didn’t know how to avoid my car. It was me and my human conditioned thinking. Being human and had been interacting with them all my life, I used the human approach to the deer, hoping it would “behave” in a human manner with me. Dangerous! This falsehood almost got the deer killed and/or me into a car accident.
So you see. Being and thinking like human is not always a good idea.

(*) I assume it was a he ’cause I was taught that when we weren’t clear about the gender, then we should assume “male.” If this isn’t true then don’t sue me for being an animal sexist.

Tags: Bohemian Biz, Pop Psychology, Human & Animals