The Most Dangerous Trip I Never Took

So, this Saturday I was to drive up to Vancouver and spend it with Denny for one last night outting of partying, before he was to return back to America. And as planned, I started to drive up to Vancouver that afternoon.

About half way to Vancouver, I stopped off at the exit 230 off the 5 Freeway to pick up some Krispy Kreme donuts for Denny's relative. The area had some snow and looked very white. Anyways, upon turning into the store, my car started to skid in the snow and ice I was driving on into the oncoming lanes and I even nearly hit another car!! In fact, if there was a car in that turning lane, I would have certainly be in somekind of accident.

I was really upset with myself after that. Basically, I felt like I was almost in accident just for some stupid donuts! But then I realized this was a blessing in disguise. You have to understand, this was the FIRST TIME EVER I have ever driven in snow and ice (I learnt to drive in sunny southern california) and this was a rude awakening call for me that showed me how it REALLY is to drive in snow and ice!! Because after that, I drove really carefully back onto the freeway, which is good cause of what came after.

So, driving back up to Vancouver and the roads got more covered with snow and more dangerously icy. So much so, everyone on the road was driving at 30 miles/hour and I was starting to see at least one car on the side of the road and in the ditch per mile. This was starting to scare the shit out of me, mainly because even driving straight and slow, I sometimes still lost control of the car once in awhile. Then I realized, based on the fact that I was driving 30 miles/hour, it was going to take another 2 hours to get to Vancouver...2 hours of driving like this. And imagine if I did make it to Vancouver, how bad it would be to DRIVE BACK!!

Well, after driving for about 10 more miles, I decided to turn around, and drive back to Seattle. This was not worth a possible car in the ditch just to have fun in Vancouver. I called Denny and my other friends in Vancouver, and though they were all disappointed, they understood. It took me another hour just to reach "clear roads" into Seattle.

In retrospect, I realized how important that near accident at Krispy Kreme was. If I hadn't gone, I would have been driving regularly up to Vancouver, not realized how bad ice is and would have possible got into a worst accident. Wow.

Anyways, because I was coming back to Seattle, I now had to find something else to do Saturday nite. It wasn't much, but I manage to go out dancing with a bunch of nurses and female oral hygenists instead...Its no nite with Denny, but it would have to do ;) Actually, we really had a good time and my friend said that this wouldn't have happened at all if I didn't cancel my trip to Vancouver. It was fate, I tell you!

And the worst thing out of this whole experience? A whole case of Krispy Kreme in my fridge in which I hardly eat.

And speaking of my car and cold weather...


My Car is a Piece of Crap in the Cold

First off, Seattle is FOOKIN' COLD now...like TORONTO COLD (minus the snow, though we do have a small bit). And this is the first time I had to experience this type of cold here. And so has my car. So, besides the whole "skidding" at Krispy Kreme incident, the cold has done some other interesting things to my car. Observe...

--the keyhole on my drive side door is usually unopenned-able now, dued to the cold. Usually after I drive around for awhile, its fine but every morning (or late at night), I can never open my door unless I open it from the passenger side door. Very annoying...

--last night, I had to drive late at night to pick up someone at the airport. I leave my apartment complex pretty quickly before realized how cold my car was and that the windows were very fogged up. So I decide to pull over on the side of the road, turn my emergency blinkers on and wait for my car to warm up. So after 5 minutes, I decide to start moving again. My car was still cold but warm enough that my windows were fine. Anyways, I was driving a bit only to realized my emergency blinker was still going. Turns out, my car was still too cold and the button for the emergency blinker WAS STUCK!!! AGRRRRRRRRRRRR!! I couldn't drive on the freeway with it on, so I had to wait for another 15 minutes before it was unstuck from the cold!!

I need a new car!!