i drove through a deer at 1am on 101 between exits 3 and 4.

trooper comes up, checks me out, realizes i'm stone cold sober, so he's being very polite and awesome to me. my car was toast, so i'm standing on the side of the highway at about 45F with just a t-shirt, freezing. He's keeping me company til the tow truck shows up, super cool of him.

he says "yeah man, like, 1/2 maybe 1/3 people are legally drunk right now whether they believe it or not". That kinda stuck with me ever since.

Also, we're kinda up on a hill that can see about 2 miles down. He taps me on the shoulder and goes "hey listen real quick --" and then I hear this loud bang and water balloon popping noise. He goes "yeah, I saw a truck's headlights dip, you just heard a deer explode". Kinda funny. And gross.