A durn yearling jumped out in front of him about dark. He like to have hit it. It woulda tore his vehicle up something awful if he had of.
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Mark-I haven’t heard that 🙂
I have had many close calls and actually ran into a herd of deer about 4 o’clock am one morning standing in the medium of a 4 lane highway. I knew there was no way I would miss all of them, I hit one in hindquarters with the heavy steel metal front bumper of 1997 Ford F-150. Other than a big jar it didn’t hurt my truck and I wouldn’t about to get out at time of the morning and walk around in a man’s front yard looking for a deer.
I ‘uz tole it happened about dinner..
I can just hear someone saying this in my head. I love it!
We have a saying here in Indiana about yearlings: Them’s good eatin’
A durn deer jumped out in front of me in broad daylight and I did hit it and it did mess up my vehicle. My brother-in-law hit one in the same spot a week or so earlier. It messed up his car worse than mine.
I’ve heared durn before, but don’t reckon I’ve heared yearling for deer.
Christine, there is an older book titled The Yearling, without looking I can’t remember the author. The book is a “classic” if that is the correct word. I believe a movie was also made from this book. The book is about a young boy and his pet deer growing up @ the 1930’s in Florida.
Don’t you just hate it when that happens!
One night after black dark two of them crossed the road out me so I slowed down in case there were more. And there was! It hit me from right below the drivers side door handle on back toward the gas cap flap. It bent the door a little and I had to fix the flap to make it closed but that’s all the damage it did. I went on to a place where I could turn around and went back but like I said it was black dark, and I didn’t have a flashlight. Looking for it was a futile effort anyway, the state doesn’t require them to carry insurance and I wouldn’t have fixed my little old Ford in any case. After all it’s a truck and real trucks are supposed to look that way!
“What happened to your truck?”
“Don’t know, it was dark. Might have been a deer, or an elk! Could have even been a moose, I don’t know! Coulda been a Bigfoot too, I don’t know!”
I know enough to know you’re talking about a deer about a year old having to strike out on his own and doing what they like to do at sunset which is jump out into cars off hillsides. It’s a bad thing indeed for humans and deer. Also, if one jumps in front of you, slow way down or stop because there’s usually five more behind that one… experienced in these matters, y’all.
Ive had a few close calls hitting deer jumping out of the tall grass in some right of ways. The deer flies are so bad up here now in “Frost Bite Falls”. You see a lot of deer standing in open fields to try and get away from them.
Really enjoying The Thread That Runs So True. The story itself is interesting but Jesse’s beautifully descriptive writing makes it even more so.
A large buck bolted out of the woods and straight into my driver’s side window. However, he was okay, stayed on his legs, and ran. My car door, however, got dented. There is always sadness when deer get hit. We feed the ones who come around during bad winters and try to shelter them because they feed us with the finest meat that exists. They are also one of God’s most beautiful creatures. And, yes, if a deer gets hit by a car or is hunted, everyone you know gets to hear the full story, and everyone you tell will tell everyone they know, because, up here, in northern Michigan, deer are that important.
There are so many “durn” deer along the roadways that even in the daylight, I am worrying about one darting out in front of me every time I drive somewhere. Between the two of us, hubby and I have hit at least 7 in our lifetime of traveling back and forth to work or play—and I remember the details of each one. The first time I ever collided with one was on my way home from Ash Wednesday service at church. Hubby was at work, and both of my young children were with me. It was on a back road, so I was going only about 30 mph. It came running out of the dark woods—jumped off the bank—landing on the right side corner of my hood. We got out to look at the car—me crying because it was damaged—my daughter crying because the deer was lying in the ditch badly injured. A neighbor got permission and went and put it out if it’s misery for us. The last time was a few years back. We were on our way home from having Christmas dinner with our daughter and family, and a huge “durn” deer jumped out of the woods, across the guardrail, and landed right smack in front of our vehicle on the interstate. With not even a second to touch the brakes, we hit hard—airbags deploying. Our vehicle was totaled, but we were ok. My son-in-law came and picked us up, and took us back home with him, as we weren’t far from their house. Our granddaughter was little at the time, and she was just so happy we came back to stay the night!
I don’t hear durn yearling around here, it is more often a d..n deer. Along with wrecks, the deer also do a tremendous amount of damage to crops and gardens. I have heard of several motorcyclist this year being killed after hitting deer. The highway maintenance department will often times drive along the highway picking up the dead deer. One dead deer usually equals one wrecked car. I teased my wife, she had to be at work at 4:30 am and drove back roads. She hit deer several times even though she drove slow and was watching for them. According to her the deer were always running into her, she never actually hit them. I call the deer she hit suicidal deer.
We use so many words including that one with the same meaning. Dadgum, daggum, doggone, dadburn, dang, danged, darn, durned, blasted, and our newer generation says freaking. I’m sure I’m missing several more we use, but that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
We are making a list of words and phrases our families use and are going to share them at the next Ky reunion. I love our colorful words and phrases. We us a lot of mountain slang as we call it.