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Originally Posted by Crowbob

Had I hit that BEAR there is no question all three of us would have been totaled, me the BEAR and Samurai.

I threaded the needle one time when a flock of deer decided to loiter on the highway at night. They weren't standing still but rather calmly walking across the road. I chose my spot, floored it and braced for impact. There was no deer in the headlights look. It was panicked deer in the side-windows look. I pulled over, shaking, and rested my hands on my two kids' sleeping heads and cried.

Glad you dodged the bullets in those various stories.

Now that that's out of the way, your second story felt like something out of Days of Thunder (except for the kids and crying - totally understandable)