$11 part price just increased about 20 fold

[Way2slow]

Have a part on order for the 90hp Mercury I'm rebuilding but still haven't gotten a shipped date and I would like to get it on the boat this weekend, so, I go to the nearest dealer, 45 miles away and get the part I needed.

On the way back, had a deer try playing chicken with the front end of a 2004 VW Beetle.  It lost and went flying over the top of the car.  Luckily, it hit dead center and went over the top and not into the windshield.  From the initial looks of things, it looks like another $75 hood will take care of the damage.  Now, if I could be so lucky as to find a red one, that will be great, but so far, bunches of hoods to be found but no reds.  I'm going tomorrow to get one from a place that says they have several, but the don't keep track of the colors.  If I have to paint it, that will be another $100.

Then again, being able to do it myself, even if it cost me $200 is a small fraction of what a body shop would want.  They would be about 10 times that.

[MN Fisher]

Ouch!

[Way2slow]

Now to rub salt in the wound, a little bit ago, I get the email saying the part I ordered just shipped.

[BigAngus752]

1 hour ago, Way2slow said:

Then again, being able to do it myself, even if it cost me $200 is a small fraction of what a body shop would want.

^^^There is your blessing for today^^^

 

 

[CrankFate]

Better than hospital bills and an injury + everything else.

[GreenPig]

You might just maybe want to try a different color hood. Apparently the deer are attracted to the red. Just a thought. Glad it didn't come in on you.

[Way2slow]

Georgia averages over 35,000 insurance claims a year from deer collisions and they mostly turn out much worse.  My granddaughter hit one (actually two at the same time) a few months ago in her brand new, one month old Nissan and they totaled the car, over $13,000 in damage to the front end.

[Choporoz]

GA needs to stop putting those deer crossings on busy stretches of your highways

[newriverfisherman1953]

8 hours ago, GreenPig said:

You might just maybe want to try a different color hood. Apparently the deer are attracted to the red. Just a thought. Glad it didn't come in on you.

I think you have something here!  I’ve hit 3 deer in my red truck. Two while on the way to deer   hunt and one coming back from deer hunting. Actually they hit me. All 3 hit on the side of my truck. Glad you weren’t injured. 

[Jigfishn10]

[Way2slow]

I've totaled over 3 million miles on Georgia highways and this is only my second.  Hit one in my service van about 15 years ago and this one.  The one in the van only knocked one head light out, so I have been fortunate.  My wife hit one in her first Highlander.  Tore the front end up but air bag didn't go off, so she was convinced there was a problem with it, so with 31,000 miles on it, she traded it for a new one.  Couldn't tell her there wasn't enough impact on the bumper to set them off. 

[detroit1]

350,000 in a year?  3 yrs. / 1 million. How many deer are in your state? Plus, your deer hunters suck.

[Way2slow]

That was for the 8 years before I went into the Air Force and the 25 years after I retired from the Air Force.  For those 33 years I was on the road and as a service tech, traveling about a 1/2 of the state working out of a service van.  There were times I drove over 100,000 miles a year and seldom drove less than 85K.  

As for the deer hunters, we don't have enough, that's one of the problems.  If you don't own land, about the only way you can hunt is be a member of a hunting club or state land.

They have a bag limit so high now, you could probably kill a whole herd and still be legal because of that.

Makes for a long day when you have to drive 150 miles, work six or seven hours, and you next call is 100 miles in the opposite direction so you can't spend the night, or you would have a 250 mile drive the next morning when the customer is expecting you to get there early, not that afternoon.  

Pay was good, but the job sucked when it came to all the traveling.  Bunches of 70 and 80 hour weeks, because of the traveling.