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

[SIPNGAS]

I'm very happy to see you're still around to write.

[1NZYaris1]

Oh you are always good for a laugh, and i would tend to agree,
stop playing arround while holding camera , Build a mount it is safer
gives you two hands then.

[Bob_VT]

There are just some songs that make us do crazy things......

[eTiMaGo]

don't you mean your stunt driver's helmet?

Seriously, glad you're OK, too bad about the video, would have been fun to watch. But then again it may have been a bad influence on less-experienced drivers

[ChinoCharles]

Gene, you're great. Never leave us.

[tk-421]

Would've been great to watch that video...
Nevertheless, your post was a great alternative!

[GeneW]

I would have just caught the snowplow coming into view before I dropped the camera. Could you just imagine the feeling of flying along on that suburban street, only to lose it and then see the snow plow coming, and then see the camera view "fall" into the passenger side floor space, accompanied by Molly Hatchets "Flirting with Disaster"?

I'm sorely tempted to try again, but I just think this going fast is getting out of hand for me. That snow plow could have been someone else and I could have been banged up.

I don't believe in fate but I do believe in probability. One can't keep doing somewhat reckless things without eventually coming to terms with the odds.

Gene

[GeneW]

You know, a Snow Plow blade looks pretty damn big from the driver's seat of a Yaris.

Damn!

Gene

[Bob_VT]

Originally Posted by GeneW

You know, a Snow Plow blade looks pretty damn big from the driver's seat of a Yaris.

Damn!

Gene

What....municipal plows are only 11' wide!

[m911gt]

Originally Posted by GeneW

You know, a Snow Plow blade looks pretty damn big from the driver's seat of a Yaris.

Damn!

Gene

It would have been something like the end of Vanishing Point

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by m911gt

It would have been something like the end of Vanishing Point

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js2QyChSlK0

Too bad that Kowalski didn't think to slow down, do a bootleg and then escape?

More likely I'd have been banged up and would have been eating crap from the local authorities for years. Scratch one Yaris....


On the way to work the next day some cow decided it would be great fun to cut me off, and then she hit a patch of ice, panicked and I almost nailed her back bumper. Disgusting slattern!

I decided that leaving for work "ten minutes early" is a fine idea. Aside nearly creaming some clown who decided that driving in freezing rain requires frequent applications of brake (they were driving a four wheel drive small SUV) and then hooked into my lane to make their right hand turn, I've been pretty cool.

It's not bad, taking it easy... I could get used to this.

Gene