Cars backed up for a mile at a rail crossing on Forest Avenue. Inattentive people on cell phones, eating a bagel and smoking a butt... everything but looking at the road. Getting stuck behind a sloooooow moving METRO bus. One too many red lights.

A frustrating commute to work? Sometimes.

Dangerous? Not really (I'm knocking on wood now).

But if you live out in the country--like in Chesterfield, for example--you might have to contend with a different kind of commuting problem.

Like a hunter with a rifle shooting a deer along side of the highway. And then shooting again. And again. And driving the animal into the path of oncoming cars. Forcing you to slam on the brakes to avoid a nasty deer-car collision.

Now that's a dangerous commute!

I don't think we have to worry about this kind of thing in the big city.

But I'll certainly be more alert driving to and from my hiking spots, that's for sure.

Wonder if I should paint my car blaze orange?