SO...... I am driving to go pick up the elders because they need a ride to church and because the president ask that the cover both my ward and the Wallace branch every week. So I head out pick them up and the roads are crazy slushy and not very good at all (this is from a guy who laughs at city folk in the snow. And plays in the snow so it was bad) and the off ramp to Pinehurst there was an Idaho State patrol car flashing its lights and some cars that ate it on the off-ramp and just driving to pick them up I couldn't get into the passing lane with out the car being thrown around like crazy and I ended up being stuck behind some car pulling a U-haul trailer. So I it took me awhile to get to their apt. But I picked them up and dropped one off at the branch building then headed home to my building and the roads coming back weren't that great either so as I approached the off-ramp I shifted down gears and began to slow down unsure as to the condition of the off-ramp. Then because of a lack of constant friction which is also known as traction between the sweetest red car ever and the icy road the car began to slide cutting through the V shape of the off ramp line and the lines of the freeway. I was already sliding and pumping the brakes would have been a futile effort.
I was headed strait towards a set of reflector posts and then a deep V median like thing of untold death. Normally one wouldn't stay calm once one comes to the realization that you may get crunched in the next 5 seconds I steered the car the best I could to avoid striking the both reflector posts then I felt I dunno if out of instinct or the spirit to pull the E-brake and slide sideways I did so and the car slowed down but began to slide sideways drivers side first towards the posts. OH NO this car is going to be in the shop again and the member who owns said shop told us he didn't really want to see that car in there. We slid closer to this menacing post which seemed like it would inevitably be the cause for much grief and a likely source that could cause the car to flip into the deep ditch. We slid and I held on to the steering wheel staring at the post calming hoping for the best as the Elder that was with me stayed calm and didn't speak. As I slid with in 5 feet of the post I closed my eyes hoping for the best then the car started to slow down.. I opened them and stared as we were still sliding I stared at the post knowing it was going to be the source of great anguish then It came within a foot of me.... I came with in 2 inches of the post it was right out my window an inch from the window almost hugging the car. Time had frozen and I was no longer sliding.... I WAS ALIVE and the car was intact. No scratches at all. Nothing just a pile of snow and dirt that helped slow me down more that it would have had I been going straight on I looked and the elder we both kinda laughed flipped on the emergency blinkers and did something illegal I backed up on a freeway a little. Then slowly drove down the off-ramp that I barely missed.
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