Holiday Kindness

It is so easy to forget how essentially kind people are, especially during the holiday seasons. For instance, a man in New York who might have been concentrating on the holidays a little too much, ran into a deer, somehow, unexpectedly, probably to the surprise of both of them. Well, actually to the surprise of all five of them. There were four guys in the car, not really in the best condition to make medical decisions.

At first, they did not agree what to do about the deer, who had been hurt, but Mr. Caswell finally did the decent thing, and proposed to drive the deer to the hospital emergency room. They never made it. A policeman pulled them over.

The deer no longer needed medical care, as it turned out. Mr. Caswell did, as it turned out. His alcohol level was about twice what was legally permissible, but we should remember that even in that altered condition, Mr. Caswell wanted to do what was right for the deer.

The emergency room might not have been able to save the deer, anyway. Most ERs are not well-prepared to treat deer, even during the holiday season, when you might expect a reindeer or two to show up, even if just from flying exhaustion.

But we should not be cynical. There is precious little enough care for our cloven-footed friends, most of whom have no knowledge, at all, of DUI limits, and all that.

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