not an uplifting post but worthy or note anyway

a couple months ago i posted about winter driving safety. perhaps i posted slightly prematurely as obviously we all know that january and february hail snow more than december does. last night i was awarded the first opportunity of watching non-educated drivers drive in winter conditions. Dane Cook (ooh, i should really link him over in my ways to procrastinate area huh?) has so elequently expressed on both of his CDs that Americans love car accidents. this is why i love him. he states the obivious. oh Dane, you are my hero.

let me first just say that a car accident could have been me last night. upon the conclusion of my 6 minute tanning session at Hollywood Tans (i do this for sanity reasons of needing ultra violet light, not for vanity reasons of wanting to look pretty. oh who am i kidding, i do it for those reasons too) i was driving down Ellsworth Ave in shadyside. Ellsworth Ave at 6pm in snowy weather = BIG sheet of ice. Why is this? i'm in a populated neighborhood, during rush hour, and its been snowing since 2pm. have we not figured out yet that salters would be a good idea? anyway, the lesson learned from that story is that my car does not have anti lock brakes. yet one more reason why i miss my cavalier. yes, its been a year, no i'm still not over her. the malibu on the other hand slid all over the road. suprisingly i did not panic. probably because there was nothing in sight for me to hit. anyway, i just wanted to point out that i was not an accident case last night. whew.

real story. i park at greg's. greg lives on a tiny 2 way street with parking on both sides. and to make things worse, non pittsburgh natives, people in pittsburgh park both ways on either side of the street. people in pittsburgh: this is weird in case you didn't know. so i park. get out of the car and hear a car shuffling down the road. yes, i said shuffling. i do not believe she had even applied the gas. car skids. i hear "crack." i stop. i stare. go to dane cook's site above. except that by 'crack' i really mean thud or whatever sound plastic makes when its being hit. i'm fully prepared to take down license plate numbers thinking surely the person will not stop. but she did. got out of the car, inspected the hit vehicle, and upon finding no damages left the scene. i think i should buy a saturn. that was the most amazing trick i've ever seen. perhaps my poor cav would still be here today if she were plastic. oh wait, she was still hit with such velocity that she spun out into the middle of the street from her perfectly parallel parked position.

thank you girl in car who slid into other car for doing the appropriate thing and inspecting damage. no thank you stupid people who fled the scene after destroying my baby.

and one more time, just in case you missed it the first time around, or cannot seem to locate it in my archives: PLEASE READ FOR MY SAFETY AND YOURS THIS WINTER!