Monday, October 8, 2007

Rain, rain, go away...because you ruin everything (Day: Bad)

Yeah so, this weekend I went home for the first time in a month. It was great....saw everyone I wanted to see except my mom and my sister casey, who were both in California for a cousin's wedding, and my best-friend Shiloe. I even went back to Del Taco and saw my friend Gabriella and my friend Mike Hansen. So the the trip was great, watched some conference, went to Priesthood session, saw Hanna Lillywhite and went to this sick-tight rap dance party on Center Street in Orem, hung out with Daphne and Miles all-day Saturday, they were at my parents' house while their parents were in NYC for some reason, and then saw everyone on Sunday like Kurt, Lyndi, Rob, Bret and Irene and their family, and then everyone else in my family plus Julia, Bryan's GF, and her sister, and James' GF, oh and Chloe and Brittany.

So great weekend right....well you could say that if the trip here didn't turn out bad. Let's just say I learned a lesson about my car, on a bad road that is really wet from rain and is mostly gravel, trying to stop at a long line of cars trying to hit the junction between the 20 Freeway and the 15 Freeway....isn't all that easy. Yeah, got in my 4th accident ever in my life and 4th this year. Out of 4...2 were my fault and they were minor, the other one some guy hit me while I was in a parking lot, and then the other one was in Paula's car going to school....and it was the morning of my 18th birthday....and my first accident ever in my life.

No but this accident sucked. So what happen was I was slowing down to get over into the lane which would hit the junction and put my on the 15 Freeway. Well I got in the lane, came around the corner probably going around 20 or 25 and the Speed Limit was 35. Anyways I saw a long line of cars so I hit the breaks to slow down, well we kept getting closer and as people were kind of saying stuff loudly at me about getting closer to the car, I hit the breaks harder and I could feel that the tires weren't getting stopped by the breaks. They were sliding through the breaks and so we kept sliding and hit the car infront of us, and they tapped the car in front of them. The damage to my car was just my plastic bumper got cracked and broken and my liscens plate got more mended to form everything that was holding it all in place and everything. The damage to the girl's car I hit was the very left corner of her back bumper got popped out and everything and that was it. Then the car that got hit by the people we hit just left little scratches of screws from the liscens plate in her back bumper. So it was minor. Really tiny. Infact if you looked at the front of my car right now....you wouldn't think it got in a accident...you would have thought it got all old and cracked....minus the liscens plate.

So anyways we got out and exchanged info and everything, made sure I did everything right this time since the last time I got in an accident I screwed up on getting the right info and people kind of flipped out at me a little for it, I called dad who was really only worried about everyone involved and I kept telling him everyone was ok. And then I was at the point where I wanted to just get in the car and go, then the cops showed up. I don't know if someone from the accident called it in or a by-passer but we were stuck there for an hour too long getting everything all squared away and then I ended up getting a $75 ticket for tailing too close when I wasn't even riding someones tail when the accident happened. But then we got it all done and we got in the car and left. We said a prayer there because we forgot to before we left and right as we got to Pocetello my roommate decided he wanted to drive all the way in. (Found out that this accident was my roommate, Andrew's, first accident ever in his life....he seemed a little spooked and shaken up from it. He told me when he got into the car that he is someone that when something like this happens that he wants to take control and handle everything, so when he said he wanted to drive I let him have it so everything was all cool)

So yeah basically the roads here in Idaho suck, and I know they suck because one a few, not planned on, situations just driving around Highland, I was stuck with having to hit the breaks kind of hard doing about the same speed to stop at red lights and everything and with the roads still a little wet from all the rain, and I could stop at the lights with no problem. So the extreme wetness and the roads being gravel didn't work to our advantage. Oh and I drove all the way back on sunday. Everything we well back and we didn't have any problems with weather or anything.

So yeah now I got a ticket to pay for, a slightly battered car, and new wisdom of how to handle and what to expect from the roads up here....and since this is my 4th accident I have been involved in since turning 18...I'm making a vow now to not get in anymore situations that could be or will be accidents anymore for a least, or I hope for, 2 years. NO MORE ACCIDENTS....OR AT LEAST NO MORE THAT I CAUSE. BUT I AM GOING TO JUST STICK WITH NO MORE.

Everyone wish me luck on this vow and everything.