Deer Culture

On the way to The Little Mermaid this past Friday, my son and I were suddenly stopped...but a deer.  As news spread to family and friends that we hit a deer, responses varied from "glad you are okay" to "I had that happen recently, too" to "do you have a deer whistle?" To friends and family in Oklahoma, California, and Florida, hitting  a deer is a completely foreign thing. For us in the upper Midwest, this is an unfortunate common occurrence, something many of us can relate to, and vocabulary has been created related to this experience. We Minnesotans are part of a Deer Culture.