CP cheats death once more
 

I'm driving home on the freeway, probably going about 70. I'm humming to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and turn my head to change lanes.

BAM.

A very loud, very shocking noise as something hits my windshield. It took me a moment to understand what had happened as I didn't see any of it. My first thought was - gotta pull over, now.

I get over and take stock. A 5 inch divot of crushed glass right in front of my face. Spider cracks over half of the windshield. I'm covered in a shower of tiny flakes of safety glass. A pinprick of blood is on my arm.

I called GD to calm myself down and eventually drove myself home slowly. Took a shower to get all the glass off and am now getting drunk.

I really did cheat death. If that object, whatever it was, had been a little harder, a little faster, it could have busted through and hit me in the face. I could have had a serious car accident. I kept looking at that menacing divot and thinking about the end of my life on August 3rd, 2006.

I have no idea what is was or where it came from. It took all of my attention to get me over to the side of the road.

All I can say is, damn, it's good to be alive.

Damn - thank god for safety glass. Glad you're sticking around for awhile, pour yourself another for me.

I have had the experience of the no-warning, something loudly hits your car phenomenon, and I know it's not fun. (I was rear-ended going 70 on the freeway by someone going 100+ who then took off).

After the shock, fear and adrelin wears off comes the intense gratitude that it wasn't worse. I'm feeling the gratitude with you right now.

Holy freaking cow. So glad you are OK.

Were there any truck near you with an unsecured load or an overpass where some punk kid might have thrown a rock from?

Not that the damage is worth much of anything compared to your life.

Glad you are ok, have another drink for me.

Good lord how scary. Our car was once hit by a wheelbarrow that flew out of the back of the truck on the way back from DL when Indi was a baby. How it missed the windsheild I have no idea. Glad you are ok!

That adrenaline will hop you up quick, won't it? ;)

How fortunate your head was turned and that shower of glass didn't go into your eyes.

I'm glad I wear glasses all the sudden.

... and VERY glad you're still here.

Crap, CP!!!!!!!:eek:


Wow- do I know how you feel. Something similar to NA's experience happened to me and to this day I hate freeways. I'm so very glad you're okay, and I don't have a reason to be sad on August 3rds of the future.:)


Here ya go::cheers:

Yoiks! Glad you were able to pull over safely and super glad a pinprick and required shower are the worst of your injuries.

I'm having drinks with ya tonight!

We had a Mega Bitch at work today - It took all of my power to keep from making remarks that would end my employment, while keeping her from screaming at myself and coworkers.

:cheers:

Hey CP, glad you're ok!!

Have several for me!!! ;)

Thanks, everyone.
That's 3 so far...I'm about to finish my first and then I'll get to €uro's...Like I said, I really don't know. I believe there was an overpass, and it seems to be the most likely possibility. That just horrifies me. As I was an exit away from a CHP station I'm sure anyone stupid enough to do such a thing would get caught. I don't have the energy to make a case out of it, especially since I didn't see a thing.Didn't think of that one. Yeah.

I swear, I thought of this thread title on my way home. My priorities are always in check. ;)

Crap, my math skills are bad enough sober...;)

Holy Moly CP!

So glad you are okay and thank the lord to whomever invented safety glass!

I can identify with yur feeling of gratitude, I felt the same way after hitting a bad patch of ice and fishtailing and then doing a 360 and missing a metal signpost by what felt like millimeters.

Grateful you made it home in one piece and will be with us a good while. Cheers and enjoy that drink!:cheers:

That must have been so scary. I'm really glad that you are ok, CP! It really could have been much worse.

I was once on Ortega Hwy. An opposing car swerved into my lane. I swerved to avoid a head on and did a complete 180, with a mountain on one side and a cliff on the other (that I missed going over by about 4 feet). I sat and shook for about 30 minutes before the adrenaline started to wear off so I could continue my journey. Scariest moment ever.

Have a drink for me. :cheers:

glug glug

So, when you sober up, maybe this weekend, or sometime soon ... make a point of doing something you've always wanted to do ... that you might have put off a wee bit too long to matter if things had gone unspeakably, unthinkably the other way.

I am sooo relieved you are ok. I love you sooo much.



(ugh, but even the mention of safety glass gives me the willies with the flashback of my encounter with non-saftey glass. Brrrrrrrrhrhrr.)

Very happy yer ok CP.

:cheers:

I love you TOO! So MUCH! All of you guyz are the BEST!

I have to pee.

i love CP when she's drunk.

:cool:

Quoted for prosperity. CP used a z. hehe.

So glad you are ok! I'd ask you to have a drink for me but I think I had one for you (at about the right time).

Holy moley. That is scary. Glad you're ok. Sounds like that horror series about those kids that cheat death...
Watch your back.

You know, an escape like this merits more than one evening of drinking. I think you should have a drink for me tomorrow night.

Admit it, you love me all the time.Okey dokey.

I'll echo everyone else in being very relieved you weren't hurt. Jen and I both have a few chips in our windshields from flying gravel, but nothing close to your experience.

S H I T. So glad you're OK.

I have one too, but I don't brag about it! :D :eek:

Seriously, I'm glad you're okay. First GDs back, and now this! When it rains, it pours!

One time a frien though the'd play a trick on me and took an ols speaker from it's box, and set it magnet side down on my bumper. Then on the way home when I hit about 50 mph, it cought the wind and took flight "BAM" right on my windshield. But luckily it hit face first, anot the magnet. So it didn't break my windsheild, but I did net to get home to change my underwear.

Which reminds me, why did mom always say "I hope when you are in an accident, you will have on clean underwear? Because I know that after an accident they will no longer be clean anyway!

Take care CP!

Some tequila is in order- do a slammer from me as well!

Heehee, tried to mojo RStar but hit enter before writing anything. :)

Whoo it's late. Must get up early tomorrow so I can call an auto glass place and drive slow to work. Not sleeping anytime soon tho.

((hugs)) I'm glad you are ok. Be prepared for some pain tomorrow when the drinks wear off and you can feel all of the muscles that tensed up.

I don't usually have the time to read all posts to threads but this time I just had to.

A, because I wanted to hear what everyone else had to say and B, follow CP as she drank all of those drinks. {I am with Disneyphile, spread it around, drink up some more tomorrow. Oh, and also, with iSm who said do something you've been wanting to do...great suggestion}...

I had a eye opening experience without contact...I was on the 15 heading south from Mission Valley and a car on the northbound lane lost its' tire, the complete tire. It bounced all the way across the lanes...right past my car and a whole line of cars.

It was so scary. I'd heard so many stories of people being killed just that way. What a miracle it was no one was injured. Amazingly, there was a break in the traffic {usually very heavy} in front of me and the cars behind me weren't racing to pass me so none of them were injured.

Very glad you are alright. :)

Glad you're okay, CP! How freaky!
I hope you're not too hung over to read this.
:)

wow. talk about a thrill ride.

sheesh. made my heart pound just reading it.

glad you were not seriously hurt.

i'm assuming you don't want a drink this morning, so have an advil and a glass of water for me.

Kudos to you for being able to get the car over to the shoulder safely!

Glad you are okay and hopefully not too hungover. :)

I'm still dancing
Dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts
But he can't catch me

I saw that and thought, whooo she's having a good time now!! But then I looked at all of the mistakes in my post and figured maybe you were just as tired as I was!

Good luck getting the car fixed. The last time I got my windshield replaced they came to my work to do it, and got it done in about an hour! And my insurance paid for it, and my agent even paid the deductible out of his pocket (There's something to be said for the "Good Neighbor" State Farm talks about!):snap:

BTW, I just woke up from dreaming that I took GD to see POTC II because he'd been on the ride, but not seen the movie yet. What's up with that? Very strange....

No hangover - I never drink THAT much. :)

Too much mojo in 24 hours so I'll get to the rest of you later. Love you guys too. :)

Matt - No one lives FOREVER! :D Gotta definitely listen to some Boingo today.

All's well that ends with a nice buzz and your limbs intact, I suppose.

:cheers: to your health

:cheers: Happy Anniversary

:cheers: Friday night

Glad you're not dead.

I'm glad to hear you're okay!
<big hug>

How scary. So happy you came out of it with only some scratches.

Phew! That was a close one! Did you think of what you are going to do now that you have a second lease on life? I think iSm has the right idea. So, how many cocktails did you end up having last night?

Glad you are OK :)

Driving sucks sometimes. At least your head was turned and the road wasn't icy or something crazy like that.

Have a root beer for me at lunch. ;)

:eek:

so glad to hear you are ok-closest thing I ever had like that was a loose hood that flipped up against my windshield as I was driving around 60mph. Pulling over was terrifying because I could not see at all.

phew- you and GD keep tempting all kinds of fate- take care of you!

Wow, very scarey....I'm so glad you are okay.

And, I like ISM's advice to go and do something you've always wanted to do. I might take that advice myself!

Take care CP. :)

Holy crap CP!

At least you're okay :cool:

Holy crap, indeed! I'm glad you're ok!

I'm so sorry, thank goodness you're ok! That must have been a scary experience.
I like ISMs' advice, you should follow it.

Wow, CP, I'm glad you're okay.

That's what I'm having done. Our insurance won't cover it though. It's under our deductible.
Actually, it affirmed to me that I would have no true regrets if my life ended now (God forbid). I am where I want to be, and the thought of traveling to a certain place or doing a certain activity before I die doesn't have any weight for me. Besides, I've seen Paris. :p

I had a beer and a half and slept soundly. I'm glad I drank for that reason alone - I'm notoriously bad at falling asleep if something's on my mind.

I took pics of the damage - will upload later. I'm still working on the mojoing!

I did listen to some Boingo today.

It's just another day...

And just when I think
that things are in their place
the heavens are secure
the whole thing explodes in my face

Holy crud CP... that's some scary schtuff!

I am glad that it wasn't worse!

Several years ago, my dad was driving when some rebar (3/8" thick metal construction rod) fell off of a truck and went through his windshield. He saw it coming and was able to move out of the way (it would have hit his arm). He took the day off (and my dad is VERY stoic).

Sp, spend the weekend in a drunken stupor - you deserve it! And we deserve to read your posts while in said state!

Glad to hear you aren't dead! (wow..that sounds very morbid...)


About 10 years ago, one of my dad's coworkers was driving on the 405 at night. There was a gardeners truck infront of him. Apparently, the blade on one of the lawnmowers on the truck came loose and flipped off the back of the truck. It sliced right through his windshield and impaled itself through the passenger seat and into the back row.

Pretty scary stuff :eek:

CP - just wanted to say I'm very thankful and happy you're still with us! :eek:

Unfortunately, it was the French, but it was by accident so we can't give those pussies full credit. I believe Ford was to first to put it as standard equipment on a mass production car.

Ah the beauty of safety glass. It can take massive impacts from the front and often survive without a scratch. Often is the smaller objects that tend to cause cracking, not the larger ones. However, the smallest hit from the inside, and it shatters like the hopes and dreams of a child once they realize that their god is dead.

CP glad to see you are alright, and since this apparently happened before I saw you last night, I can rest assured that you are definitely not dead. You have 100 year old technology to thank. (and not the French...well not really)

Seriously?

I'm glad you're OK. *hugs*

Sadly, most pedestrian overpasses in Sydney are getting wire cages enclosing them completely.

Too many young folks nowadays think it's hilarious to throw rocks & bricks etc at cars.

There was even a stop work meeting of Bus Drivers recently to complain about the rising number of kids throwing rocks and bricks at BUS WINDOWS !!

Why kill one person when you can kill 50 ? :rolleyes:

Yup. I don't like being that smashed. I've only had a headache the next day maybe twice in my life, and even then it was nothing compared to what most people describe as hangovers. I've also never thrown up due to drinking.

I did that once.

ONCE.

I learned my lesson well.

I also don't experience headach type hangovers. But then I don't suffer anykind of hangovers (except that one time) because I don't overindulge.

Slacker

Until very recently I also had never thrown up from drinking. But I made sure that when I finally did so it was maximally embarrassing (TIP: When you leave a job don't have you're going away pub crawl until the actual last day because you don't want to have to go back to work the next morning).

I also have never had a hangover, even after this particularly embarrassing event (not the first time I had been drunk but by far the drunkest I've ever been).

I've never thrown up from drinking, or had a headache, or been hungover. I'm terminally unhip.

You're not alone, I'm unhip with you :)

I prefer to think of it as knowing one's limits. :)

That's 'cause you puked. Gets it out of your system, hence no hangover.

I too have only puked due to alcohol once, and I too maximized the emberassment factor. Let's just say that any night that ends with the declaration, "We need to get him off the bathroom floor, get his pants up, and get him into bed," is a night to remember...I just wish I could.

I wish what you said was true. I get to experience the worst of both worlds.

I have been drunk exactly once in my life. I puked. I was hung over. I also rather stupidly decided to ride my bike home from the party and ran into a parked car.

I have never since had the desire to be drunk.

I just had a 'Wayne's World' flashback where Wayne's ex-girlfriend waves to him and then immediately plows her bike into a parked car.
"Hi, Wayne!" *Slam*!!!
:D

It is funny in retrospect, but I am amazed I wasn't killed that night. I swerved out into traffic more than once.

"Don't drink and bike!"

Funny puke story.
I was in 11th grade, living in my parents' house in New Jersey. One of my friends was visiting from Florida, and we'd been invited to a party in Long Island. Since I was 15 years old, I had to convince my cousin to drive us to the party. He borrowed his dad's new Mercedes and off we went. At the party, we drank dangerous "Tankas" (vodka and Tang - with almost no water), followed by many beers. When it was time to leave, we had to get my Floridian friend out of the master bedroom, where he was having sex with the hostess of the party (I think they were both 16). Anyway, as we made the long ride home on the Long Island Expressway, I started to feel very very sick. I asked my cousin to pull the car over to the side of the road, whereupon I fell to my knees and threw up. We repeated this action several times, until finally he pulled the car to the side, I blindly got out and started to puke, and I felt a tap on the shoulder.
"Uh, Jesse. You're on your front lawn."
Nice.

(Most of you know I quit drinking. The big question is: why did it take almost 5 more years?)

Don't bike ride after eating mushrooms, either...

GusGus is the same. She NEVER gets a hangover (not once in the 19+ years I've known her) and a good number of you have seen her fairly toasted. And she never horks either.

She has actually still been drunk the next morning.

Come to think of it... I've seen *you* fairly toasted too, LOL.

I get a hangover after 1 beer. It sucks.

Strange, I wonder why some get a hangover easily, and others never do? Where's Bill Nigh when you need him???

You mean Bill Nye? I think he's at the Universe of Energy with Ellen... :)

I am in the "never get hang overs or headaches" camp. I still am amazing my friends, who I have been getting drunk with for many many years. My DH nor my friends are lucky enough to get up the next morning and be fine.

How did my cheating death thread turn into a boozefest?

Oh. Right.

How did my Controversial Topics thread turn into a discussion on the best way to burry bodies?

Sometimes it just does. :)

Yes, Bill Nye the Science Guy!

I think I was confusing him with Bill Nighy, who plays Davey Jones in POTC II.....