Hanging up my stunt driver hat

[GeneW]

We had a spell of snow and ice today. I took the video camera and went outside for fun. Figured I'd show how well the Yaris goes in snow.

Took hills with a twenty degree grade with ease. Did nice spins and handled skids well. Had a ball, including going down a hill that was so bad that the local municipality put a police officer at the top to warn people off.

Went down it with ease, went down other streets, flawlessly driving a well made balanced and wonderfully responsive car.

Took a nice curve and drifted into the other lane, which was occupied by an oncoming snow plow. Missed it by fifty feet.

The real bitch is that I was playing Molly Hatchet's "Flirting with disaster" as a background sound for the video and in saving my ass dropped the video camera, which erased the video. So all of that hard work is gone.

I'm getting out of this funk while the getting's good. Enough.

Gene