I hit a deer

or should I say, the deer hit me?

Driving home from work, not going fast, a deer appeared out of the woods. I slammed on the breaks, skidding to a stop, while the deer simultaneously ran into the side of my car.

In one moment, I see the deer bouncing off my car and the next moment, it is laying on the side of the road. I figured it was dead for sure and I watched at it for a minute, but there was a truck behind me waiting for me to move on, so I drove home (which was only a quarter mile away).

I felt pretty sad about it.

It had sprayed some nasty brown crap all over my car - I thought it was literally crap, but it didn't have a bad smell.

After I got home and had dinner, I went to wash my car, but the deer was gone. I'm assuming it wasn't hurt that bad - one can hope anyway.

The brown stuff was very sticky and was difficult to spray off the car, even with a high pressure hose. I have no idea what it was - may need to do some research.

Now I have to get the dent in my front quarter panel fixed. What a pain.