Deer in the headlights

In order to save money, I bought cheap airline tickets for Anne & Eric to fly to Pittsburgh one time.  They had to leave at 5:30am from the Denver airport, which is about an hour from here.  I drove them down for the flight, dropped them off & started for home.  As I was driving home, a deer ran right in front of the car.   I thought – “oh, my gosh, I am so lucky that I missed him”.   Just then, his or her buddy decided to try the same trick.  Neither of us was as lucky this time.  I slammed into the deer and totaled both our car and the deer.  Aren’t deer in the headlights supposed to freeze?  Tickets weren’t so cheap after adding the cost of the accident…