On My Last 1-Up

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Was heading out to my car to get to work this morning. Noticed that the sky was sending down that pre-snow Stuff—you know, that kind of sleety-snowy-haily-rainy-slushy half-frozen crud that doesn’t fall gently like snowflakes but rather augurs into the ground like a kamikaze. Climbed into my car, set the iPatch to stun random, and vaguely thought, “Hope that becomes REAL snow soon.”

Then I pulled out of the driveway, and two things happened at roughly the same moment:

1. The car skidded at a 45-degree angle across the street, and
2. The iPatch chose this to be the first song in its queue.

I parked again, then called in to work and told them the mountain had become a slidey death chute. You just can’t ignore a sign like that.

Comments

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Talk about synchronicity...

Hopefully your car stopped of it's own accord, rather than fetching up against something?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah it just kinda sagged into the gutter.

I'm pretty good at getting out of skids--you've got to be to live here. But I was still on the flat stretch before I get to the extremely steep hill I have to drive down to get anywhere. I can pull out of skids going uphill or flat, but I don't want to press my luck and wind up sliding DOWN.

[yoccuri.livejournal.com]

The giant penguin was waiting around the bend--and probably would have knocked you off the edge--so that was definitely the best decision.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

And even if he wasn't, I ALWAYS go for that bouncing blue coin. Gets me every time.

[chairman-wow.livejournal.com]

You know I never really liked Mario 64 that much (something about it creeped me out as a kid), but that track has made me want to download a bunch of videogame music and make it the soundtrack to my everyday life.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I am so glad someone else said that about Mario 64--I love the hell out of it, but it DOES have a certain eerie quality. Something about the graphics, the way it was set up, I don't even know, but I'm with you all the way!

I have a whole pile of video game music on the iPatch. It does make life feel more adventurous!

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

I just had my third driving lesson ever, and I was quite relieved to be done with it before the first Annual Snow Chaos™ hits Karlstad full on. It's already started; it's very windy, and sharp little slivers of snow are swirling around everywhere. 'Tis quite distracting weather to be learning gear changing in.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

This is when your car needs to put on cleats.