Two nights ago I posted a picture, and a challenge to guess what the heck happened. Didn't get that many responses, though the best was: "While undercover you smoked up and your backup came to arrest you by accident..." from my loving brother. Thanks for the support. Harkins was right close with his: "I’d bet you got in an awful lot of trouble for making your car look like police car." Whoops, I meant: "Oh, it’s the other one? Got me then. Skidded through some ice and onto someone’s lawn?"
So, the fll story goes like this. Saturday here was really weird. I woke up, and it was snowing hard. An hour later it was sunny, and snow was melted. Repeat 3-4 times. 'Round evening time I went over to a friend's place for a Wii party. Was fun, until we realized there was no pizza, bummer. So two friends and I went out riding to grab a pizza and listen to Pirate Shanties, not half an hour after we'd arrive. When we went to the party, the roads were perfectly dry, wonderful traction. When we left, we had to go down a hill that starting from the crest of the hill curves to the left. Also starting at the crest of the hill (so you couldn't see it sooner) was an entire hill of black ice. By the time I realized we were on ice, I couldn't do anything, and we skidded into the curb. Ok, no we skidded onto the curb, and were stopped by a poor sapling who now sits at a 45 degree angle, and more costly, its concrete box. That initial hit busted my axle so my wheels couldn't turn more right than almost straight, luckily the hill curves left, right? So we had to move the car immediately, as the next car over that hill would smash right into me, and past this tree/box was a sloping hill down to a nice tree line, you guessed it, the hill was a nice sheet of ice as well. I kinda got us sliding down the hill again, with just about no control, and managed to skid up onto the left shoulder about a foot in front of that tree.
*Whew* Fun time's over, right? Well, not exactly. My bumper was still about a foot into the road, and some idiots were taking this hill as fast as 40 miles an hour. When I hit it I was only doing about 20, so we saw people whose cars did full 180 turns, even a few 270s as they tried to stop/turn/whatever. Moral of the story, this being a 1 lane on each side road, my car was still in the danger zone if anyone else lost all control. So we ran back up the hill to try not to get hit. Its 18 degrees out, by the way. Took me an hour to get a tow truck out there, an hour outside standing there watching people keep flying down the hill and sinlently hoping one would hit my car so it'd be on their insurance. No such luck, hello $500 deductible. Thankfully a police officer showed up with road flares and was able to guide a bus down that would have just gone down as fast as it normally does. Unfortunately that also means accident report, and that leaves me liable for that stupid sapling I beat up if the management of the property decides to be mean to a poor college student.
Oh, and the best part. I turned 21 at midnight. So I busted my car 2 hours before I was supposed to be in a bar with a coupla friends "celebrating". The really sad thing: Between a web contract I've got now, and my money to go out somewhere nice for my birthday I MIGHT be able to break even with regards to the deductible.
*Mutter* Wish I was a pirate and could just plunder me a new car...
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