Comments on: Jackson Road & Parkland Plaza

By: John Floyd

John Floyd — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:34:43 +0000

@6 I don’t imagine that “Deer in the daylights” will become a common metaphor.

@7 I’m not worth too much, myself, when I awake.

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:18:54 +0000

When I was living in Nairobi I talked to a guy who was a cook at the Carnivore, which is a famous tourist restaurant on the fringes of Nairobi National Park. He told me that he was riding his bike home from work in the dark one night when he crashed into something in the road. As he pulled himself together, he discovered that it was a lion that had laid down for a nap (they do that), and it was now wide awake. He backed off slowly, hopped on his bike and rode like a bat out of hell, but the lion just looked at him.

By: Dave Askins

Dave Askins — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:54:45 +0000

Re: [4] “Ever hit a deer?”

No. The closest I’ve ever come to a bicycle-deer accident was up on Newport Road several years ago. A fawn still with its spots just wandered out into the middle of the road. It froze like, um, a deer in headlights – though it was daylight. Then it could not decide which direction to flee, lost traction with its tiny hooves on the pavement, and managed to get itself off the road, but without displaying the kind of grace typically associated with its species.

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:14:46 +0000

Man, that’s a long way to bike in the snow.

By: John Floyd

John Floyd — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:44:02 +0000

Dave,

Ever hit a deer?

By: Dave Askins

Dave Askins — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:12:37 +0000

Rod, I have an every-other-week bicycle trailer recycling hauling gig out that way for an optics company.

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:57:55 +0000

There are a ton of deer in the Parkland Plaza/Little Lake area. I have learned to be super-cautious at night in here. (What were you doing out here in the boonies, Dave?)

By: DrData

DrData — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:40:46 +0000

Dangerous for the young deer, considering what I used that road for.

That was always the road I took my sons to for their early practice driving (on the weekends). Plenty of practice turning into and out of parking lots, pulling into/out of parking spaces, and driving on a real road.