Accident

Coincidence, I think not. Yesterday I was reading a post by XGH about slowing down (May 8,2007 “Davening Violation-4 Points”). This morning my live-in said I’m always in a rush. Well, I should’ve registered warning. It had rained this morning but the roads were only mildly wet. Imagine my surprise when I spun out while rushing to work. I was in the left lane merging into the middle and I started to skid but there was another car in the right lane. I tapped the brakes to give me some distance so I would ease behind it and the next thing I knew I lost control. I veered back to the middle lane as the tail end of my car started to 360 the wrong way. I made eye contact with the lady in the left lane as the front of my car faced the front of her car. I thought we would become intimately involved any second. But she must have slowed just enough for me to pass to her left, my tail end still turning. This short stretch of the Southern State Parkway just happened to have a wide grass divider before a metal guardrail. My tail was still turning on the grass as the back hit the divider and bounced me to a stop facing forward.

I want to thank the MTA man, whose name I didn’t get, for stopping immediately to see how I was. I, thank God, am fine. My bumper is somewhat scratched and some paint chipped. It’s off its hinges a small bit and I have one broken taillight. So I’ll have to shell out for a new bumper but at least I don’t need to by a coffee today because, as you might very well imagine, my adrenaline is through the roof. It’s a miracle I wasn’t hurt and that there were only frayed nerves instead of secondary accidents.

I was surprised by how cool I was during the spinout and afterwards. Sometimes you have to let life take the driver seat for a while, while you become to be the spectator. Thanks for the show, glad its over.

P.S. Thanks God, you get my eternal thanks and my vote.