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  • Dec 10, 2009, 10:54 AM
    albear

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    Thank you Bear, I'm fine. I sent a phone photo to Marta will I waited for that tow truck.

    Glad that you noticed my post bud. :)

    No worries stringer, I know that 'OH SH1T' feeling you get when you feel you've lost control of your vehicle, terrifying and exciting at the same time :)
  • Dec 10, 2009, 12:17 PM
    Stringer
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by albear View Post
    no worries stringer, i know that 'OH SH1T' feeling you get when you feel youve lost control of your vehicle, terrifying and exciting at the same time :)

    :D Yeah.. Those are the words that I heard myself saying bear. When I touched the brakes I went into a complete spin, I was very lucky to be able to control it enough to guide my car between that utility box and the car in front of me. I missed it by inches. Like I said before, about a hundred yards ahead of me one car was over and on top of another and another one was on its' roof 20 feet from the road. Actually I saw about three additional cars that were off the road like I was.

    I called my son he has a big Ford 4 wheel drive. He was on his way but the traffic was all snarled because of the storm. So I called him off when I got the tow truck driver to do it. Remember I was sitting there for and hour and a half... boring!! And Marta wanted to come and put out road flares because my butt end was still out on the road somewhat. I wouldn't let her, the roads and weather were just terrible.

    Funny, I am the one that is always preaching to her about keeping blankets, flares, food and drink in the car for situations like this and I forgot to do it myself. Although I found a couple Reeses' Cups in my car... made short order of them... :)
  • Dec 10, 2009, 12:22 PM
    redhed35

    Bloody hell stringer.. close call!

    Just as well you didn't have to eat a limb.

    Survivor.
  • Dec 10, 2009, 12:27 PM
    Stringer
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by redhed35 View Post
    bloody hell stringer..close call!

    just as well you didnt have to eat a limb.

    survivor.

    "You funny ladeeee Red" :)

    I have been losing weight for the last three months now, wouldn't have been mush of a meal :)
  • Dec 10, 2009, 12:35 PM
    adam_89

    Stringer, Hate to hear about your close call but glad to hear it was only close. Monday sucked on the way to work. I never got much above 20mph on the way to work. Whenever I touched the brake they weren't really in existence.
  • Dec 10, 2009, 12:49 PM
    Stringer
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by adam_89 View Post
    Stringer, Hate to hear about your close call but glad to hear it was only close. Monday sucked on the way to work. I never got much above 20mph on the way to work. Whenever I touched the brake they weren't really in existance.

    Yep, like I said before, Disney On Ice man... and usually I don't have any problems on ice, this condition was different. The road was rounded a lot so rain would run off, it wasn't as flat as most.

    I was raised in Western Pa, I learned to drive in this weather in the Laurel Mountains, not a problem usually. But when I touched the brakes on that ice, that was it. While I was in the spin I was working that steering wheel, let me tell you...
  • Dec 10, 2009, 12:51 PM
    albear
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    :D Yeah..Those are the words that I heard myself saying bear. When I touched the brakes I went into a complete spin, I was very lucky to be able to control it enough to guide my car between that utility box and the car in front of me. I missed it by inches. Like I said before, about a hundred yards ahead of me one car was over and on top of another and another one was on its' roof 20 feet from the road. Actually I saw about three additional cars that were off the road like I was.

    I called my son he has a big Ford 4 wheel drive. He was on his way but the traffic was all snarled because of the storm. So I called him off when I got the tow truck driver to do it. Remember I was sitting there for and hour and a half.....boring!!!!! And Marta wanted to come and put out road flares because my butt end was still out on the road somewhat. I wouldn't let her, the roads and weather were just terrible.

    Funny, I am the one that is always preaching to her about keeping blankets, flares, food and drink in the car for situations like this and I forgot to do it myself. Although I found a couple Reeses' Cups in my car...made short order of them....:)

    Yeah you deffinetly got lucky :)
  • Dec 10, 2009, 01:13 PM
    adam_89

    I still don't know which way to turn the steering wheel when sliding because it usually doesn't help.
  • Dec 10, 2009, 01:15 PM
    Stringer
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by albear View Post
    yeah you deffinetly got lucky :)

    I was lucky Bear, could have been me in that upside down car... very lucky, ha you guys would have been rid of me... :D:rolleyes:
  • Dec 10, 2009, 01:20 PM
    albear
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    I was lucky Bear, could have been me in that upside down car...very lucky, ha you guys would have been rid of me.....:D:rolleyes:

    Lol been there done that, got the photograph :D
  • Dec 10, 2009, 01:27 PM
    adam_89

    Been upside down Bear? Not good.

    Stringer, what do you mean rid of you?
  • Dec 10, 2009, 01:28 PM
    Stringer
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by albear View Post
    lol been there done that, got the photograph :D

    I was somewhat p*ss*d at myself for allowing it to happen, also felt a little stupid... must be a 'guy thing.'
  • Dec 10, 2009, 01:37 PM
    albear
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by adam_89 View Post
    Been upside down Bear? Not good.

    Stringer, what do you mean rid of you?

    A year ago I wrote my first car off, went round a corner, caught some loose mud or something (it had been raining heavily before I went out) swerved to avoid an oncoming car went between a tree and a telegraph post into some bushes pulled out hit a post and flipped it, I wasn't joking about that photo either, I got the paramedic to take one of me stood next to it :o
  • Dec 10, 2009, 01:39 PM
    albear
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    I was somewhat p*ss*d at myself for allowing it to happen, also felt a little stupid....must be a 'guy thing.'

    I just got a sense of 'that didn't just happen... did it?'
  • Dec 10, 2009, 01:43 PM
    Cat1864
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    I was lucky Bear, could have been me in that upside down car...very lucky, ha you guys would have been rid of me.....:D:rolleyes:

    Stringer, I am very glad that you weren't in that upside down car. I don't even want to think about joking about losing you. :(
  • Dec 10, 2009, 01:44 PM
    adam_89

    Ok, pics then Bear? I got to see.

    Once I was driving home and it was raining and I threw a cigarette out my window and I thought it came back in so I looked in the floor and then back at the road. By that time my vehicle had left the road and I was heading straight towards a phone pole. I only had a lap belt in that thing so I dove to the right in my seat and it still slung me back and placed my mouth right into the steering wheel. It was a metal steering wheel with wood on top and bottom, well my mouth busted the wood and bent the metal. I now have over $4,000 in my mouth. Haha. I split the pole in two and continued through the woods taking out some trees until I came to one big enough to stop me. I miss that van, my good 'ol shaggin waggin. If I was in anything else I would have been dead.
  • Dec 10, 2009, 01:55 PM
    albear
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by adam_89 View Post
    Ok, pics then Bear? I gotta see.

    Once I was driving home and it was raining and I threw a cigarette out my window and I thought it came back in so I looked in the floor and then back at the road. By that time my vehicle had left the road and I was heading straight towards a phone pole. I only had a lap belt in that thing so I dove to the right in my seat and it still slung me back and placed my mouth right into the steering wheel. It was a metal steering wheel with wood on top and bottom, well my mouth busted the wood and bent the metal. I now have over $4,000 in my mouth. Haha. I split the pole in two and continued through the woods taking out some trees until I came to one big enough to stop me. I miss that van, my good 'ol shaggin waggin. If I was in anything else I would have been dead.

    Wow, that sounds even worse than mine, tut tut on the safety of your van even if it could plough through the forest :)

    I'm not going to show you the pic of me stood next to it, because I don't like showing pics of myself, but I will show you before and after crash pics if you want?
  • Dec 10, 2009, 02:05 PM
    Stringer
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by adam_89 View Post
    Been upside down Bear? Not good.

    Stringer, what do you mean rid of you?

    Bad joke Adam.
  • Dec 10, 2009, 02:05 PM
    adam_89

    Ok, that is fine Bear. You don't have to post any of the pics. You don't have to be shy in front of your family though. My accident wasn't that bad, I was just thankful my van was very durable. I had stitches in my mouth and both legs and had scratches and bruises all over. In bed for a week. It was nice that week. Wake up in the morning, take 3 different pills and pass out minutes later. Wake up in the afternoon, take more pills and pass out, same thing in the evening. That is all I did was sleep and take pills.
  • Dec 10, 2009, 02:06 PM
    adam_89
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    Bad joke Adam.

    Damn right bad joke bud. Don't say that.

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