Here is a driving tip to which I can personally attest.
Do not leave the garage when your sloped driveway is a no-kidding solid sheet of clear ice.
You will regret it, your lamp post will regret it, and when the car finally stops and you get out of the car to see what happened, and go straight down, your leg will regret it.
Though watching a minivan do a 180 skid in the width of a single driveway is probably fun!
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Ouch! Reminds me of the time my 16-year-old son forgot to set the brake and as I looked out the window saw my Bronco slide into an evergreen at the end of the driveway.
I think that if I hadn't heard the bump as we whacked the lamp post, I'd have had the presence of mind to think 'hey, its going to be slippery when you get out, be careful' -- but I just wanted to see if I'd done what I thought I had. Which I had. Got to say, lying next to a running car on an icy street was not my idea of fun.
Oh gosh! Hope you are OK.
Over winter break I had to get my car inspected on what had to be the most icy day ever. I was turning onto a street (very slowly too) and started to just spin. Not nearly as fun as your adventure, I know.
I've spun cars before, and its never fun. Once, in South Dakota, I came within about five feet of a steep drop off in the Black Hills. I had to sit and calm down for about ten minutes. This morning was kind of like that -- and it was just my driveway!
Ouch! Glad you recovered, though!
I used to work in a depot that was at the top of a slope. It got very slippery on those icy mornings, and it wasn't too long before half a dozen telephone vans crashed into something.
Spinning isn't fun. Did anyone get the pirouette on YouTube? :-) (Sorry. I couldn't resist!)
I take it your leg is on the mend?
Carolyn Ann
Ah, if anyone did, it'll not get posted -- nobody died, nothing major destroyed.
Yeah, its on the mend. Very slowly. I really have to stop this banging about. My wife says that in winter she's going to start cocooning me in bubble wrap. I may let her.
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