Day 21: Accidents

DAY 21: A picture of something you wish you could forget.

Hah...cheating again! This is another one I feel like I can't find the right picture for because it's something I couldn't capture in a picture. So, you'll have to deal with using your imagination again...

Here's the story. I wish I could forget it, but I remember all the details of it still, even down to the song I had playing in the car while it all happened. (Let's just say I don't listen to the song much anymore.) Like anyone living in Pennsylvania, once October hits the snow and ice become weather you have to pay attention to when driving. Last winter I was driving home from youth group and it was a typical freezing night that started off with rain during the day that once night hit turned into freezing rain. The last stretch of my drive home includes getting off an overpass that's at the top of a hill, and that night I wasn't paying attention to the icy roads as I was getting off the road. I saw brake lights ahead of me, but I didn't realize how slick the roads were until I went to use my brakes and I immediately started spinning. The moment happened so fast I didn't have time to remember what my dad had drilled into my head about the direction to steer when you're fishtailing, so I just let go of the wheel and spun into the guardrail and then the front of my car went into a bank of snow. I was freaking out and sitting in my car at the top of the hill perpendicular to traffic, and the car wouldn't start. I called my parents who barely understood what I was saying because I was in tears, but since they understood through my panic that the car wouldn't start and I was in the middle of the road, they told me they were coming to get me. My dad left to drive the quick two minutes over to where I was, and my mom stayed on the phone with me. I'm sure the scariest moment in my mom's life was while I was on the phone with her. She was trying to keep me calm, and I was doing just that until I saw a car crest the hill going the same fast speed I was and spinning towards me. In my panic, I screamed all this to my mom, which I'm sure was the worst thing I could have ever done to a mother. It was so terrifying to me because the car was flying at me and I could do nothing but sit there and wait to be hit. I'm not sure how the person driving did it, but they gained control of their car at the last second and just missed ramming into the side of the car. The whole scene is something I wish I could completely forget, because it was such a helpless place to be in. I've never been that scared in my entire life and I wish I could erase the memory completely. The other day I was driving out of my neighborhood with my mom and there was a lot of snow which caused the car to slide out of our control, and I freaked out because it just reminds me of that night last winter. If I could completely forget it, I would do it in an instant.

...So depressing! I thought the picture blog would be so much lighter than that! Well, on a more positive spin, I figured out how to get on my grandma's old school internet! Props to my cousin who figured it out, because my grandma is completely clueless in the technology arena. So, in between family visits and trying to find good trails to train on here, I'll be able to get some blogging in! :)

Meg