I cracked my car up tonight. Lesson OTD: After a blizzard dumps 2 feet in your area, drive in the middle lane of a three lane highway even if the highway is nice and clear. You may be tempted to drive in the fast (3rd land) to pass a tractor trailor but don't because you could end up like me: Very, very lucky but with one smashed up car. I was in the 3rd lane -- knowing that the lane was smaller due to snow on the side I was looking to move to the middle lane -- hit a huge block of fallen snow lost control of the car, veered from the 3rd to the 1st lane, hit the underbelly of a trailor part of a tractor-trailor at 50 MPH, then start spinning uncontrolablely and have no f*cking clue where you are going, go into the middle dip between the East and West bound lanes and smash into a tree. As I lost control and saw I was going to hit the underbelly of the trailor I thought, "This is it. Oh my God, I am going to die." However, the only harm I sustained was a slight bump on the head when the car it the tree but the 2 feet of snow in the median was already slowing it down, so essentially I suffered no harm. My glasses came flying off and I lost the eye pads but they can be replaced. The nice, newish (to me) car suffered great damage and my insurance will raise but that is life (which I am glad I still have).

 

Not checked for spelling or grammar but I am going to bed to rest, so Oh well!

You ruined the thread with that shit story.

 

(Hope you're okay mate)

Proof that Americans can't drive or post on-topic.

Are you /seriously/ suggesting that extrapolation of the lives of Teh possie into putative futures was on topic? Come to think of it, what was this thread about?

Why, Steve, I do believe it was about an embarrassing failure of yours.

 

:{) 

:{)  :-(( Perhaps you should create a cracked ball emote for use in denoting an extreme fuckup.

It was more on-topic than Captain Snowcrash.

My maths supervisor gives out gold stars in such situations. Last night he told me "Well done on the test." Coming from Bob Dillon [yes], this Does Not Bode Well.

You know when you're old when you make senility jokes just too easy to make.

Sorry, no more thread ruining for me.

(they're only kidding. Glad you didn't get injured or worse, at least you've got a good story out of it)

Well, bloody well sod you, then. If we're going to abandon the fantastic future we were creating in favour of icy car action, well, it makes me wonder why I bother going on. I could have just given up the fight with the wheel in the wee small hours of Sunday morning and slipped quietly into oblivion.

 

It was a cold, clear night, and I was driving home after seeing a couple of gigs in Glasgow. I was hanging a right round a roundabout, clutch down, braking gently when the engine cut out, taking the power steering and braking with it, nearly putting me into the verge. I'm not sure exactly what happened, because I was kind of on autopilot, but I'd been half expecting it to lose grip a bit because it was icy, so for the steering to suddenly become extremely heavy was a shock. I was able to coast down to a side road, then had to handbrake it to stop, turn the alarm on and off to reset the immobiliser and start back up. The car ran fine the rest of the way.

 

But it sickens me when people drag a sensible thread off topic.

So what you're saying is that you were driving along and you didn't crash your car. Jesus, what an anticlimax.

Thanks. A very scary event but has of right now, I am feeling fine which is important part.

Hey, if Wibble can post about all the great stuff he's not bought, I can post about my far-death experiences.

www.blogspot.com

 

HTH

That's /no/ fun.

poat what you like, everyone else does.

 

good job you're ok, sounds well scary.

Thanks

Ask Dyl about my driving skills on the way back from Durham :$ (fail) 

 

I don't think I'll try that series of events again.