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I haven't slipped so far, but there hasn't been any snow/ice yet either.
My junior year of college, I lived in an off-campus apartment complex called "Ice House." I have no idea how it originally got that name, but the sidewalks immediately around it were smurfing death traps in the winter.
I'm Canadian, 27 years old, and I've never broken a bone in my body. I don't think any of those are possible without learning how to walk on ice at a young age. I don't even really notice it anymore.
A few years ago I was driving from a clients back home with a few people from work sometime in late November/early December. One of them was driving, and it was about an hour and a half or two hours on the highway to get home. At some point the car started to slide, spun around two or three times while still traveling down the highway before we came to a stop facing the right direction and after hitting nothing. Spinning aside, we pretty much went in a straight line the whole time, and no cars were really around. Quite lucky really.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharkythesharkdogg
Black ice caught me out pretty bad once too. When if first started driving I tended to go sorta fast No other teenage boy I knew of acted like this, and it's very embarrassing. I would push my poor little 1986 Mazda 626 with all season tires as hard as I could on the way to school every morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jowy
One of my braking points for a corner was in the shade of a tree. Shade is exactly where black ice likes to hide :P. I hit the brakes perfectly on the ice and jumped a ditch. I wound up in a field, and spent the weekend replacing bent pieces on my poor little car. :cry:
The thing that sticks out in my mind though was how unbelievably calm I was. It was like my brain just went "well, can't do anything about it so let's just wait and see what happens." No adrenaline, no change in my heart rate, nothing. It was kind of disconcerting.
So far I've avoided falling which is for the best considering how accident prone I am.
I had to put on a jacket today. It was terrible. :stare:
That one spot out front of Coe Library... I must've come close to going ass up at least a dozen times.
Fortunately I'm baller as smurf and rarely end up stacking it.
Well. Mostly.
I recently slipped but it was right as I was getting into my car so I fell onto my seat. It wasn't so bad.
Also had a couple car slip ups whilst driving due to slick roads. And those are never fun. :mymelbert: