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The Walking Curse - part 1

May 8 2007 will be a day i will never forget. This day, starting at 1:30am with accidently locking my friend's keys in her car was just the cusp of this extremely predestined doomed day. This will have to be in multiple parts because of its longevity. Please try to bear with me...

So, i never ever lock keys in a car. But this day i did of course. After calling about 5 different locksmith, i picked the cheapest, $70! ugh! One of the most annoying things in life is when u have to spend money on something that u know u could have prevented. well this incident wasnt even that bad in retrospect of what the rest of this day entailed.

My original plan was to head out very early tuesday morning, around 4am or so. But because of the key fiasco, we didnt end up going to bed til about 3. So there was no way i was going to sleep for only an hour and then drive 28 hrs across country to chicago. So, since i didnt want to drive in morning traffic in la either, we slept til about 9am. When i awoke, it seemed to be a fine day, great weather and with good friends. After a great breakfast, we headed out and hit the road. Keep in mind, my car was packed! There were no cracks, no crevice that was untouched, thanks to the packing queen, joy. (thanks again btw) So my bf at the time and i were driving on the 210 freeway. The sun was warm, the windows were down, everything seemed to be going as planned. But then all of a sudden, on the other side of the freeway, a work truck carrying metal beams and pipes in its bed, apparently blows a tire and loses control. He hits the concrete median wall where he almost flips his vehicle over to my side of the freeway, but instead, he sends pieces of his shattered truck as well as everything that he was carrying, over the median wall like a 7 foot swell. Of course this was the perfect time for all to happen as I was on the freeway heading the opposite direction, and of course was fortunate enough to get hit by this wave of metal. I tried my best to avoid them, but I was too close and the objects hit my front bumper, damaging my grill and radiator, it damaged all 4 of my tires, 3 which ended up riding on its bone. As this is happening, my car, being an SUV loses control and starts to swerve side to side. Keep in mind we were going about 75 mph. I prayed that my car doesnt tip over and tried my best to take control of what was left of my car. Luckily, my jeep slowed down and stayed on all fours due to all the excess weight in my vehicle. Besides it sucking that i was still sitting in the LA County, and now, with no transportation. I think i was still very fortunate overall. If i had stayed in the far left lane and not had switched to the center lane 5 minutes prior, or slowed my speed down and gone into cruise control, that rush of wreckage would have instead, flown across the wall and through the driver side window. Then this blog would have been completely different.

So, yes, justin and i were shaken up, but unhurt. There is more to this story of this jinxed day....but will have to be continued. Oh and what did we end up doing about getting to chicago? Since i had a job interview lined up that friday that i couldn't miss, i ended up paying about $630 for 2 tickets to fly to chicago on thursday. Double ugh!

posted by yellowgirl @ 10:54 PM