Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry

Yes, slidey slide, my little baby car Muriel or Heartbeat as she is known to some had a small accident last night, well, medium, on some bastarding black ice. I was driving along (in my automobile) in 2nd gear as the road was very sparkley and I knew it was super icy.

I was being careful, I was freaked anyway as I had skidded a few times already and then all of a sudden I was backwards on the road, the car spun 360, was straight for about a millisecond so calmed down a tad and then all of a sudden we were skidding down a hill sideways, I hit a kerb and turned backwards and smacked my head off the side window and then finally she stopped.

I thought I was going to die. It was the scariest thing that has ever ever happened to me. Skidding a little bit is scary enough but backwards and sideways down a road is freakishly scary. I was so scared and shaken that I couldn't get out of the car for about 5 minutes. I finally opened the door and assessed the damage in my frozen and shaken state. All lights working, no damage to the front, a hissing from a burst tyre, great!! The whole passenger side of the car was up against a wooden fence, that was broken, a big dent in my passenger side front panel and the small panel beside that, and the rest I couldn't see because it was pitch black and the car was against the fence. Panic panic, I dropped my phone three times before I got it together enough to make a phone call.

I rang Sean my brother in law, whimpering at him down the phone, "I crashed the car I crashed the car, its fucked, help me!!!". My head was killing me, I was shaking from either the cold or the shock or both. A girl who was driving behind my car had pulled in, she was holding me as I shook and cried and sniveled on her shoulder, she was my savior. I remember saying over and over "I broke my baby car, I broke my baby car". Sean came along fairly quickly and got me sorted, he doesn't feel the cold he said, he took off the burst tyre and replaced it with the spare, he pulled out the dent as much as he could. I didn't know what had happened. I was still shaking. The girl had gone at that stage.

The grass was crunchy. The road was twinkling at me. I was ok. No harm done to me. If something had been coming on the other side of the road I would have been dead, instantly gone. Black ice is a bastard. I have to get a new panel or two, I am amazed at the lack of damage. Thankfully I hit grass and a wooden fence, thankfully it was not a wall, or a car or something harder and thankfully I was going slow enough to not do any major damage.

What really killed me was that while Sean was doing the tyre people were speeding past us. How stupid are they, obviously there had been an accident, obviously the road was dangerously icy, obviously they should not have been speeding, but they were, I just hope that all of them got home safe. I was lucky. Someone was watching over me last night.