Thursday, July 3
Robert De Niro
Not a good day. Well, sort of a good day. Good News first: I passed my first year at university! Which means I can go back next year to run up even more debt. Fucking result. For me, rather than my bank manager. That's about all the good news, it's dowbhill from here.
Bad News (this could take some time): Bambi. He's cute isn't he? How about when he's lying on the road, legs quivering in the last throes of death? Because that's what I saw this morning. Yes, I hit a young deer on the way home from work. I didn't have a chance to avoid it, it just ran straight out in front of me. I hit it with a sickening sound, and it went under the car. I had a car full of people, so I stopped and we all jumped out. My first thought was for the car, because the front bumper is only about a fortnight old, after the last accident I had. There was a load of big cracks around the front number plate, which means another new bumper. Not good, mainly because I still owe my parents for the last one.
Then I turned round to look back down the road. Not a good idea. The little deer was lying on the road, with its legs pointing towards the car, shaking as the last bits of life drained from it. We weren't sure if it was even going to die or not. Eventually it just stopped moving, and a couple of the guys picked it up by the legs and threw it onto the verge at the side of the road. I am now having constant replays in my mind of it running out onto the road, and then it lying on the road, shaking. This is the first thing bigger than an insect which I have advertently killed, and it's resting heavy on my conscience. Nasty stuff.
Also, I got stopped by the police for speeding, but got off with a warning, thank God. A £60 fine and 3 points on my licence was something which I don't need.
I'll explain about that later, along with my parents' reaction, but I've got to shoot off to work now. See if you can guess the relevant title of a film in which Robert De Niro has starred in, connected with this post.
