Tonight my friends and I decided to go up north to watch a break dance battle that another friend of mine was competing in. We went and it was fun and exciting. I am truly amazed and jealous of how the break dancers make it look so easy. I even got to see three b-girls today. It inspired me (though I probably won't get into break dancing because I don't have the body strength too. I can do a baby freeze though! :D), it made me want to break out in (hip hop) dance. Kekeke. (:
Anyways, back to the story. So after the battle (my friend's crew was in the finals, but got second place... :[ They were so good too!), my friends and I are starving so we wander the area a little looking for a place to eat but with no hope. We then decide to go back home and eat at the Applebees there since it closes late.
Everything is fine and we are almost home, about 10-15 minutes left driving on the highway. But on the highway something bad happens... My friend that is in the passenger seat, and I in the driver seat, are singing along to song that is playing. I noticed up ahead that something is wrong, but it doesn't click in my head until I realize that the car that was driving ahead of me had stopped and was trying to turn into the next lane. (We are driving in the very left side of the highway). There is two other cars stopped with bad damage done to both cars (car accident). We still have a few yards, I slam on the breaks. But I realized that something is wrong; we aren't stopping quick enough. I could even feel the tires sliding down the road. Without time to think, I swerve the wheel so that we won't collide into the car ahead of us or into the accident. I didn't even have the time to double check that there was no cars in the next lane. I could only pray that there was no cars in the next lane. And thankfully there was not. But the car swerved and drifted a little in the next lane and we were slightly perpendicular to the highway lanes on next lane from the car accident. And thankfully the car that was in the next lane (the lane that we are now in) had quick working breaks. Because she stopped 10 feet from us. After about 10 seconds to catch our breath, I slowly pulled out and continued to drive down the highway.
Somehow, someway. We got lucky. We burned a little rubber and left a small burning smell in the car, but other than that. We got away from an accident without a scratch. We got very, very lucky.
During the slow motion moment when I swerved the car and we were drifting. I thought "This is it. I might crash or die in this moment. This car might not be able to handle the swerve and decide to flip over. Or an incoming car might hit us once we swerve." I still clearly remember the dread and thought of it ending so quickly without time to even think. Such a scary and surreal moment of my life.
In my two years of driving, I have never once gotten in a car accident. I am glad that tonight was not the first. I would not know how to handle, if either of my two friends had gotten hurt. I was so frightened for my friends, imagining them getting hurt because I didn't have more control over the car, was such devastating thought.
Another factor in this event, is that I was not driving my own car. I was driving my friend's car (she was in the passenger seat). She was a newbie driver and drove up north, but it was a rocky and slightly uncomfortable ride because she was still trying to get used to driving on the highway. So she told me to drive home because I usually drove home well since we went up north and down frequently this past month. It was my second time driving in her car on the highway. Her car is newly bought, but it is a old used car, made in 2001. I know that if it was my car, my breaks would have stopped us in time and we wouldn't have had to swerve. But all cars are not the same, inside and out.
I may not be fully Christian. But I thank the Lord that my friends and I are now home safe and sound. Tonight has been a heart-thumping night. Scary how one moment can have you thinking many different thoughts and what-ifs. How one moment could end your life, without you even getting the chance to realize what happened and what is going on.
Really makes one think. I am currently flustered on what to think. So many thoughts going through my head. Hahaha. Well, that's all for tonight, I should get some rest. (:
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