Brief Hiatus

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Pop Culture Car Wrecks

My first real job was an internship that my uncle landed for me. (yay nepotism!)  I didn’t have a car of my own though, so I frequently rode to work with him.  I was a night owl by nature because of my college student lifestyle so I was usually out cold sleeping for the morning commute and somewhere between “zombie” and “concussed goat” as far as my intelligence/alertness went for the commute home.
One day we we were on our way home and I caught a flash of movement down the road.  It was a deer standing smack dab in the middle of the road.  However, my sleep addled brain wasn’t coming up with the word deer to warn my uncle.  I knew I had to say something though.  Finally my brain processed that it was indeed a female deer.  
Me: “Doe!”
Uncle: “D’oh?  What?”
Me: “DOE!”
Uncle: “What are you saying D’oh about?”
Me: *flailing and pointing*
Deer: HOLY CRAP, A CAR!
The deer and my uncle apparently noticed each other at the same moment.  My uncle swerved.  The deer swerved.  Actually, the deer’s evasive maneuvers involved a really spectacular leap which involved using the car as a spring board.
And that’s how a communication breakdown created by pop culture put hoof prints in the trunk of my uncle’s car.