Car Accident

Today, I was driving home and I saw a teenager, probably 16 or 17 run into the back of a middle aged guy's SUV.  The teen's hood looked like an accordian and the Guy was letting the Explitives fly!  It didn't look like there was too much damage to the Guy's car.  To make matter's worse, as the guy was screaming for the kid's insurance information, I heard a meek voice say that it was his dad's car.  Uh boy!
Well, the insurance companies will sort all of this out and then they'll be good to go. 

Several years ago, I was driving to St. Bonaventure and got into a car accident and I wasn't as fortunate.  I was dating a girl who was pretty needy and I decided to drive down after work one night to go see her.  The drive was about 2 hours.  I left work at about 10:30.  I was about 30 minutes outside of campus, when the snow started to pick up.  I came around a bend in the road and my car fishtailed and then rolled backward into a ditch.  I was wedged in and could not get out.  The worst part about the accident was that the snow was picking up and there weren't any houses or cars for as far as the eye could see.  I was in the middle of nowhere.  Blair Witch looked populated compared to where I crashed. 

After knocking on a farm house door with no answer, a car happened down the road.  In retrospect, it probably was a good thing that no one answered the door at the farm house, because I'm pretty sure they were backwoods kind of people and were not going to take kindly to someone knocking on their door after midnight. 

The car drove past me.  At this point, I'm thinking that I could be on this road for a long time.  It's important to note that this was before the time of cell phones.  Suddenly, another car was coming towards me, slowly.  This car stopped and offerred me a ride.  Funny thing was that it was the same car that passed me earlier, but they saw my car in the ditch and realized that I wasn't a weirdo.  They gave me a ride to campus, but as we pulled in to the parking lot, they revealed that they were both drunk.  Which is worse?  On one hand, I could be stranded in the middle of nowhere, with no help apparent, or I could be in a car, on snowy roads, with 2 drunks.  Thankfully, I made it to campus safe and sound.  I ended up living in my girl friend's dorm room for the next week while my car was being worked on.  I basically had no money at this point, so it was basically a patch job.  My radiator was cracked and the car was completely undrivable.  Eventually, the car was fixed and I was able to drive back home, but it was a harrowing experience.

As a funny epilogue, I lost my front license plate in the shuffle and couldn't find it.  Months later, after the snow had melted, I was driving down the same road and saw my license plate sitting on top of the ditch on the side of the road.