With deer being so common where you live, you would think that you could at least spell the word correctly.






Just teasing...

Only two odd experiences that come to mind are getting a wasp stuck between the arm of my glasses and helmet and a deer encounter.

The wasp incident was a bit scary because I was in the middle of a short but fast descent (65km/h at the time) when all of a sudden this dot came flying at me and wedged itself by my temple. I quickly realised it was a wasp but I couldn't do crap about it until I started climbing again because of the speed and somewhat questionable road quality. I'm glad I didn't start whacking at it because I probably would have crashed. Caught me totally off guard and the damn thing stung me about 3 times.

The deer encounter was funny because I was picking up the pace on a slight decline when all of a sudden a deer hopped out of a field to my right and onto the road. It saw me and froze. I was far enough away that it wasn't a hazard but that damn thing wouldn't move. I swear it seemed like the deer was thinking, "if I just don't move, maybe he won't see me" sort of thing. Yeah, you're fricken invisible mid-afternoon in the middle of a rural road. I actually got pretty close to it (~100ft) before I got fed up. I cursed the deer for screwing with the all-important average speed metric while simultaneously dropping a couple of cogs rather loudly, which startled it off into the adjoining field.