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I went to the grocery after work this morning. Not a big stop, I just planned to pick up juice and maybe some fresh fruit for lunch. However, I was walking down the back, scoping out the prices of various meat cuts, I heard a great big CRASH!
I thought someone up front had knocked over one of the end displays and broke some glass jars.
Then I heard a frantic click click :skitter:
I stop, and what should come down the aisle, but a two-year whitetail buck.
Yes, that's right, there was a
The idiotic thing had crashed through the front windows and was skittering down the aisles. It couldn't get good footing, because deer hooves on linoleum tiles might as well be on ice. Actually, ice would have been better for the deer, since the irregular surface would allow it to walk without its legs slipping out from under it.
I was rather dumbfounded, and had to do a double-take. Yup, there was a deer. I could see the drops of blood on the floor; it had cut itself up jumping through the plate glass window.
In the meantime, a customer and two of the workers had come up and were trying to herd the critter away from people. The customer kept talking to it, as if it were a dog -- which is silly, because it was a wild animal, though I suspect it was mostly to keep herself calm.
They managed to pin it to the ground with a shopping cart in the pharmacy booth. I suppose that was as good a place to put it as any.
Then the cops showed up -- two crusiers to boot -- and they went back and tranqed the deer.
I hope it gets sent to a rehab place instead of being put down.
I feel sorry for the cashier, whose lane was right at that window. She got bounced with flying glass.
On the other hand, I now have a completely surreal bit to add to a fic, somewhere, somewhen. Think this would work better in Harry Potter-verse, or in Star Wars?
I thought someone up front had knocked over one of the end displays and broke some glass jars.
Then I heard a frantic click click :skitter:
I stop, and what should come down the aisle, but a two-year whitetail buck.
Yes, that's right, there was a
Deer
in myGrocery Store.
The idiotic thing had crashed through the front windows and was skittering down the aisles. It couldn't get good footing, because deer hooves on linoleum tiles might as well be on ice. Actually, ice would have been better for the deer, since the irregular surface would allow it to walk without its legs slipping out from under it.
I was rather dumbfounded, and had to do a double-take. Yup, there was a deer. I could see the drops of blood on the floor; it had cut itself up jumping through the plate glass window.
In the meantime, a customer and two of the workers had come up and were trying to herd the critter away from people. The customer kept talking to it, as if it were a dog -- which is silly, because it was a wild animal, though I suspect it was mostly to keep herself calm.
They managed to pin it to the ground with a shopping cart in the pharmacy booth. I suppose that was as good a place to put it as any.
Then the cops showed up -- two crusiers to boot -- and they went back and tranqed the deer.
I hope it gets sent to a rehab place instead of being put down.
I feel sorry for the cashier, whose lane was right at that window. She got bounced with flying glass.
On the other hand, I now have a completely surreal bit to add to a fic, somewhere, somewhen. Think this would work better in Harry Potter-verse, or in Star Wars?
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Snape would be rolling in the aisles with gleeful laughter to see that if he knew who that stag was. ;)
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I admit I'd probably talk to it like a dog too, just out of some strange instinct.
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It was such a surreal moment. All I could think was "That is a *deer*. It does not belong in a *grocery*."
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What a surreal thing to happen. The best part is, that when someone asks, after you've added it to the story you can say 'but that part was based on real life experience'. And definitely, definitely, HP-verse with a heavy inclination towards Marauders Era.
-Draconis Leona-
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Or even funnier - Potterverse, it's *not* James, just a deer, but Sirius thinks it *is* James and tries to rescue it.
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yes, that was my thought too. ;)
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That poor, poor creature.
It would perfectly in HP, I think, very surreal.
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Re: talking--to keep herself calm, but also if speaking low and soothing, to keep everyone else calm, too.
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