Lucky to be alive

"i was sitting waiting wishing you believe in superstitions then maybe you'd see the signs. lord knows that this world is cruel and I aint the lord no i'm just a fool." - Jack Johnson

I'm at Lacey's house waiting to go to the lake. I would already be at the lake if I hadn't almost died last night.

I was on 1-44 heading south, four lanes, in traffic. The guy in front of me stopped on a dime and I swerved to miss him and instead of heading over the embankment, over corrected and headed back into traffic, my brakes locked and I spun one eighty to land my self in the center lane with traffic barreling head on.

Luckily a lady in a white pathfinder screeched her brakes and stopped before tunneling head on into me at 65 miles per hour. I could see her face through her windshield, I don't doubt that it was a mirror of mine.

Several cars had swerved to miss me. The others stopped.

A semi stopped, a jeep, and about 6 other cars, all four lanes were blocked and the Murano was staring everyone down like a sick game of chicken.

The lady and everyone else hopped out of their cars and came to my window and asked me to roll it down. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to roll the windows down.

I just sat stunned.

The lady asked me if I could drive it to the shoulder. I told her It wouldn't drive.

It wouldn't drive because I had my foot so firmly planted in the brake that it was going to take a crobar to pry it away from the pedal.

She asked if I needed someone to drive it to the shoulder. I said I could do it, as soon as I figured out how to drive.

I managed to get it to the shoulder. A black man in a straw hat waved traffic through while all the drivers who had jumped out of their cars got back in their cars.

The lady came over to my car and said she couldn't believe what she had seen. She asked if I was okay. Lacey was in front of me the whole time. She had watch the what she describes as Nascar events playout in her rearview mirror. She had parked her car on the shoulder and walked back to the scene. She was in shock. I thought I was going to have to drive HER car back.

We drove the Murano to Pep Boys and they said I had broken my tie rods, also some problems with the steering column. They said I was lucky to be alive.

I called my dad, he said I was lucky to be alive.

Today the dealership took my car in and they said I was lucky to be alive.

So I am at laceys, carless, jobless, lakeless, but damn lucky to be alive.