Today we spent the afternoon on the island of Miyajima. Its very pretty and there are lots of deer and some amazing temples and a world heritage massive orange gate thing that stands is submerged out there in the water at high tide. We were relaxing on a bench taking in the view when a deer approached my pretzel snack quizzically. I pauses and ten moved back in a fright -- they seem too cute to hit or shoo or anything so I just removed myself from the situation. It soon grabbed our map out of Alis hand and started chewing on it. She was tugging but not much was giving and David was standing there next to her looking sort of excited. I think he eventually said, Pull really hard! and she got most of it back. It was pretty funny. Later we had wandered down to the water and done all the selfies with the gate and were sitting watching the sunset over the island when a deer sidled up from my right. I was mildly perturbed, but determined to stay cool, and turned slowly to my left and said casually to the others, Should I be worried? There was a pause, with David looking iced my shoulder and He soon said, Yes! Look! And it had its mouth in the front of my bag and was chewing happily on my rail pass, worth, you know, like, five hundred dollars and unreclaimable. I panicked, stood up, did nothing -- apparently my go-to move in a crisis -- afraid of losing my pass and of doing something aggressive to the supercute, menacing deer and also of getting bit or something. It had had its horns cut off which made me think it was once very dangerous. From my angle it appeared like it had swallowed the whole thing and I was flashing forward to having to explain this to the JR officials. I said, My rail pass! And a German tourist walking by looked and started laughing hysterically and pointed at the deer and said, Rail pass! Ha ha ha ha haaa! Rail pass! I shifted around the animal and could see most of it was somehow still intact. I tugged at it and to my surprise it actually came out his grip quite easily, with a sizeable chunk gone from the top left corner, slobbery, but still functional. I am now afraid of all deer, especially ones that seem cute, docile, or inquisitive, I zip my bag up tight near all wildlife, and I casually obscure over the absent section of my pass when I walk through ticket gates though I am dreading-hoping at some point to have to explain and to point at it and say, stupidly, Miyajima, deer, and and make a chewing gesture.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:49:30 +0000
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