who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? on friday, i taught my 1990 jeep cherokee how to roll over and play dead...

i was driving to school in the snow, and started fishtailing at the top of a hill. i took my feet off the pedals to let the car straighten out, but it didn't straighten out at all...it went head first into a telephone pole, then rolled onto the passenger side, then the roof, and then finally stopped with the driver's side down on the pavement. the triangle window on the driver door busted out, the windshield was cracked up, the rear window popped out, the muffler tore half off, the transmission heaved up the shifter right out of the console...not to mention the fact at i left the grill and headlights up the bushes by the telephone pole and cruched the remainder of the front end right up to the wheel wells. it was compeltely, painfully, irrevocably totaled. i gave the title over the body shop and paid them $50 to junk it for me after i crawled in and kicked out the doors so mike could retrieve my speakers. what a mess. thanfully, i (as always) had my seatbelt on, and wasn't hurt too badly. a lump on the head, some bruises, and a whole lot of muscle pain...but i literally walked out of that car. granted, it was along the drivers side windows and out the gapig hole in the rear hatch where the window used to be, but i walked out.

so for now, i'm driving mike's civic, and his parents graciously loaned him their second car.

MORAL: wear your seatbelts. you know who you are.