sliding on ice is some scary sh!t. here's my story about ice. i just dropped a friend off after a party and was on my back home. to get home i have to go on the highway to go over the bay. i doubt anyone has ever seen it, but the 269 exit in marblehead has a lot of weird criss crossing curves so there are no stops, just yields. so i'm on my way home and i yield at the sign. now the regular speed limit for the area is 55, and i was only going around 30 because i knew that the road could get slick, but nothing like i was about to encounter. so i'm going around this curve when the back left tire slips on some black ice. the traction control kicked in and i almost had the slight slide corrected when i get to more black ice dead ahead. i'm still correcting from the first slide when i hit it. i was totally spun around and stopped in a slight ditch which was full of snow and mud. it all happened very fast. one moment i'm driving forward and the next i'm in the ditch facing the wrong way. thankfully i wasn't that far from my friend's house and even better was that her step dad had a tow truck to pull me out. the left side was buried in mud and snow, but she still drove home. if it wasn't for the suspension i probably would have flipped too. thank god i didn't. when all was said and done the damage was $3,300, but at least i drove away from it.
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