Irony really bit me in the ass tonight. First of all, precisely a semester ago I was talking about "the Best Day Ever" in my blog, which would've been about Mike's proposal. Now, at the start of another semester, I thought of titling this entry "The Worst Day Ever," but decided to talk about it in the first paragraph instead.
Yesterday I left home to come back to school, but because of the massive snow storm going on, I became stranded in Lansing with Mike instead. I decided not to drive the rest of the way because, as I told my mom, "I choose life." Heh. Mother Nature must've heard that, and thought I was mocking her.
Today I left in the early evening, right after dinner, with plenty of time to make it back to Kzoo between 8 and 9 pm. I saw about half a dozen cars off the road and started to get scared. Shortly after getting scared, I noticed my tires were slipping a whole lot, and the roads were covered in ice. I lost control, swerved a lot, and ended up nose-first in a ditch with a pile of snow on my car. Oddly enough, it doesn't sound that bad, and I suppose it probably wasn't. But it was by far the most terrified I have ever been in my whole life.
A really nice guy in a giant 4x4 truck stopped to help pull me out. I was so stuck that he ended up taking off a piece of my car's rear end, which connects my gas tank to the side of my car where I pump gas into. This is truly awesome in so many ways, but mostly because I was almost on an empty tank, and now I have no way to put gas into my car. The nice guy (he's still nice, even though he ripped my car's ass off) then pulled me out from the front and got me back on the street. I was so petrified that I couldn't drive at all. I called Mike in what might have been borderline hysteria (I'm such a puss, I'm telling you...) and he did his knight in shining armor thing. He and Sandy drove all the way out to pick me up, and Mike would drive my car to Battle Creek to have it repaired.
In the meantime I waited in my car, and proceeded to freeze. OMG. After my rescuers arrived, we discovered that my battery was so drained it could no longer start my engine, so we had to call a tow truck. I had to leave my car at an auto repair place that our good friend Chuck recommended in Battle Creek, and drop my key in this slot thing. And just leave it. My baby there, all by herself, with snow stuck all up in her stuff and her ass ripped up. Poor little Prizm, you did a good job.
Mike and Sandy finally got me back to Kzoo after midnight, and even as I type this they're still on their way back to Lansing. :( I found out after unpacking that either the cold or the impact ended up killing my poor Benzie, and just after he had his one-year birthday and everything. I was just bragging to my parents about him yesterday. :-'(
Today is made of SUCK. And tomorrow, I start P school back up again. *dies*
3 comments:
Oh my science! That's horrible! I'm really glad you're okay, and not disabled.
oh my pharmacy, i agree with em jay!
i'm glad you're alive. :) mother nature can rip my ass off for that, and i wouldn't give a shit.
Thanks a lot you guys. :) I guess I should have said somewhere in this post that I wasn't hurt at all (the best part, by far, about last night), but I guess I was still freaked out about it all. Going off into a ditch felt a whole lot worse than it sounds, but I guess it happens to just about everybody at some point. :-/
Shruti, I almost called you last night just for someone to help calm me down after I got home, but I knew you had class today too. I'll probably be online later though. :)
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