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| Dec 18th, 2008 03:20 PM | ||
| Big McLargehuge | when i was 14 my dad went into rejection on his second transplanted heart the day after my birthday, sep. 19, and ended up in the hospital waiting for a heart transplant till january. we spent that christmas eve in the hospital, you have no idea how hard it is to sleep in a hospital room with your barely functioning dad and some old dying geezer. Not to mention my two brothers and my mom. The bright side is everyone takes pity on you and you wake up with more gifts than you know what to do with. | |
| Dec 18th, 2008 03:18 PM | ||
| Big McLargehuge | when i was 14 my dad went into heart rejection on his second transplanted heart the day after my birthday, sep. 19, and ended up in the hospital waiting for a heart transplant till january. we spent that christmas eve in the hospital, you have no idea how hard it is to sleep in a hospital room with your barely functioning dad and some old dying geezer. Not to mention my two brothers and my mom. The bright side is everyone takes pity on you and you wake up with more gifts than you know what to do with. | |
| Dec 11th, 2008 01:55 PM | ||
| Colonel Flagg |
There are a lot more of the smaller critters (hence the statistics may still favor the 'coons) and you're not as likely to see them cross late at night. Hence the roadkill. That's my theory, and I'm stickin' to it. |
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| Dec 11th, 2008 08:47 AM | ||
| Kitsa |
Excerrent. We came close to hitting one last night- doe was sprinting toward the road and changed her mind at the last minute. I always wonder...not so much deer, because they have a dumber, cattle-type sensibility...but opossums and raccoons are smart and have had time to adjust to the concept of road + car = dead. Why are they still dying? Why don't they learn? |
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| Dec 11th, 2008 12:38 AM | ||
| Colonel Flagg |
Good news - the car wasn't totaled! $500 deductible and all will be right with the world. Woooooo! |
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| Dec 4th, 2008 11:12 PM | ||
| nothing4buddha | My car and I both hate deer. Some guy that lives next door actually got attacked by an injured buck last week. Got spiked through the shoulder. | |
| Dec 4th, 2008 10:39 PM | ||
| Aaarg |
Deer are a major pest in some areas, for sure. Yet the fucking retards living in cities still put down hunters as being morally wrong and blah blah blah. I'm not even getting into it. |
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| Dec 4th, 2008 09:15 PM | ||
| Kitsa |
I remember my dad trained me and my brother to watch for eyeflashes and yell out if we saw a deer near the road. We were really little. I always wondered what would happen if I yelled out and there was no deer- glad I never did. |
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| Dec 4th, 2008 09:13 PM | ||
| Colonel Flagg |
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I have the lowest possible deductible on my comprehensive. 
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| Dec 4th, 2008 09:09 PM | ||
| Colonel Flagg |
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Fuck of a bad time to purchase a new car, though. I'm hoping it's not totaled. |
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| Dec 4th, 2008 07:20 PM | ||
| Mockery |
Plane tickets are too pricey, so I gots nowhere to go this Christmas. Priceline Negotiator my ass 
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| Dec 4th, 2008 05:53 PM | ||
| Tadao | If you use slow burning papers. | |
| Dec 4th, 2008 05:47 PM | ||
| 10,000 Volt Ghost | To be fair sometimes you can get at least 2-3 hits out of the same deer. | |
| Dec 4th, 2008 04:33 PM | ||
| Kitsa | I was just thinking the other day about how many deer must be out there for deer hits to be so prevalent. | |
| Dec 4th, 2008 03:40 PM | ||
| 10,000 Volt Ghost |
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I've been taking deer hit claims all day. Hope she is okay. |
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| Dec 4th, 2008 09:21 AM | ||
| Dixie |
Holidays are for religious people
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| Dec 4th, 2008 08:33 AM | ||
| Kitsa |
I'm glad she made it through Christmas. My mom's on cancer #5 or 6, I don't remember. The first one was diagnosed right before Christmas, and she had a lymphangiogram to stage it. She ended up being allergic to the dye they used and got this sudden pneumonia. We got her to the hospital and the only attending there was a really bitter man who kept telling us that he was the only one who would work Christmas because he was Jewish. He decided my mom had Legionnaire's disease and we spent Christmas eve with him telling us mom was going to die in a few hours and to say our goodbyes. Luckily, right after that they found out she didn't have Legionnaire's at all, and they gave her IV stuff for the allergic reaction. But I'll never forget how casual that guy flipped it out "Your mom's gonna die tonight, so you'd better say your goodbyes." ...idiot. Also, the very first time I felt the pain/paralysis of my spinal cord cancer/brain tumor was when I was a toddler helping my mom decorate the tree at my grandmother's house. I have this crystal-clear memory of turning to her and saying "Mommy, my neck hurts". I even remember what I was wearing. As a matter of fact, I think I actually have a picture of that exact moment. I'll have to go look for it. Christmas just isn't merry for everybody. |
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| Dec 4th, 2008 06:41 AM | ||
| Aaarg |
Last Christmas was kind of bittersweet. We were lucky to have had my mother alive for one more Christmas (which is longer than what they had originally suggested), but we all knew that there wasn't much time left. She made it until the 19th of January. On Tuesday night, my ex-girlfriend's brother was killed in a car accident. Another brother was driving the car, he swerved to miss a deer, and hit a tree. The younger brother was ejected from the car and died at the scene. |
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| Dec 4th, 2008 04:54 AM | ||
| Colonel Flagg |
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| Dec 3rd, 2008 10:08 PM | ||
| ZeldaQueen |
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Reminds me of when my entire family was bedridden with the flu throughout Valentine's Day. I was in second grade and someone sent all of my class Valentines to me. My Grandmother came over to help us out. |
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| Dec 3rd, 2008 09:18 PM | ||
| There's A Bat | One year my grandmother came to stay with us for the holidays. She's one of those religious psychos who gives all her money to the church and leaves no money to even buy herself some food with. She's also been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but that's another story. Anywho, She somehow came into contact with some sort of stomach virus that causes the infected to vomit and defecate at the same time, and brought it to our home. It was an early christmas gift! Naturally, she shat all over the pull-out couch bed AND my parents bed. My poor mom had to clean it all up. The virus spread from person to person until the entire household, about 7 people that year, spent the entirety of christmas and christmas eve shitting and puking violently. On the plus side, I got an SNES that year! | |
| Dec 3rd, 2008 08:42 PM | ||
| MetalMilitia | That's christmas dinner sorted then! | |
| Dec 3rd, 2008 08:40 PM | ||
| Colonel Flagg |
Tonight my wife hit a deer on her way home from work. 60+ mph and never saw it coming. I'll be talking to insurance adjusters tomorrow. Joy, joy, joy. Merry Fucking Christmas. |
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| Dec 3rd, 2008 07:49 PM | ||
| Sam |
When I worked at Home Depot that actually happened a couple times. It wasn't Christmas-time though. |
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| Dec 3rd, 2008 07:48 PM | ||
| ZeldaQueen |
Aw that sucks. I have a post-Christmas story. Last year, a few days after Christmas, our tree inexplicably fell over in the middle of the night. It's not like it was unstable or anything. It was standing upright perfectly fine for the week or so (or however long we had it) prior to Christmas. My mom heard the crash in the middle of the night and asked my dad "What was that noise?" My dad, a heavy sleeper, replied "What noise?" In the morning, my mom found out. And the thing didn't just fall over. The base, just above where it was screwed into the stand, broke like it was knocked over in a storm. My mom joked that some animal like a bear snuck into our house at night and tried to climb the tree, knocking it over. |
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