I'm happy that you are alive and able to post.

I was getting on I-10 in El Paso a couple of decades ago. As I accelerated up the on-ramp, I was looking to my left and over my shoulder to see whether I could merge into the normal traffic.

That ended up being a bad move. I slammed at 60 mph into the back of a stationary 18-wheeler that was dead on the ramp ahead of me just over the rise.

My Volkswagen Rabbit ended up with a 15" front end. The guys behind me said that I hit the truck, vaulted several feet in the air, and came down in my own tracks.

I lifted the shattered windshield off of my lap and walked out.

My right eyebrow was sheared off below the skin, but I had few other injuries, except for bruises. These days, my right eyebrow grows in with white hair, while the other grows in with dark hair.

I've always figured that I'm living on borrowed time since then.

I haven't quite felt the need to go eat at the near-by church's chicken yet... though I get tempted at times.

Damn, dude. That is not a good cra to go to battle with a semi in.... well at least it doesnt seem like it... worked for you though. That has to be like winning the lottery at those odds.

I figure that I owe the crash engineers at Volkswagen a nod or two. The car crumpled around me just as they designed it to do. The engine dropped right under me and the shell members held intact.

Too bad, guys. You could have had a world with one fewer Bronco backer.

Dude, I would have jumped out of the car, busted a cap in every occupant of the vehicle, jacked the next vehicle to come by and driven it to the loading docks where I launch it off a ramp into the ocean...but jump out mid-flight and swim to the helicopter tour station. Steal a 'copter and fly it to Manhattan and jump out onto the statue of Liberty. Then go get a hot dog.

But, that's because I've been playing GTA IV. (on PS3 -- SHILL!)

Hope you and the GF are OK. and I hope you got a BJ or at least an HJ after all that. Nice evasion skills.

Shhh... You'll disrupt the widespread panic anything involving the inner-city.

Glad you're okay Bow, I've had quite a few accidents that I was blessed to walk away from.
My first was a hit and run that tore the fender off of my mother's Buick.

Jealous of the PS3/GTA4! Actually, about the hj and bj... didnt get one after the wreck, but for the 3 nights we stayed in a hotel prior to the wreck...... lets just say my member is raw from overuse.

Glad you're OK.

My first and only accident was coming home from a Blues hockey game in 2000.

I had a literally brand new Jeep Wrangler, my third day with it.

Anyway, we were traveling northbound on Highway 109 in Eureka, which is pretty winding and sloped. A light snow had just started to fall. We were coming up a pretty steep grade at the speed limit (45) and just about to come around a slight bend when a van is in our lane - sideways.

No time to react, and bam. Head on collision at 45mph.

Apparently, he was traveling too fast for the conditions, got to the crest of the hill and lost control. So he's coming downhill sideways in our lane, with no time to react because of the slight bend in the road.

There were something like 7 people in the van, and none of them were hurt.

My ex-wife broke her wrist, and I was thrown into the airbag, then thrown backwards - with my ass well off of the seat - into the rollbar over my head. Split my melon pretty good - was bleeding everywhere. Took 13 staples to close up.

Anyway, the Jeep was totaled, and the injury settlement for my ex and I was enough to pay our medical bills and put a down payment on our first home.

Damn I need to get myself a wreck like that.

Sounds good on the surface, but the knock to the melon was my 6th concussion at the time. (I've since had my 7th, and hopefully, last)

I no longer have the wife or the house, but I still have all the side effects of multiple concussions.

Yay me.