Friday, April 4, 2008

The One Thing I Would Change

I wish I could go back in time to that day on Sept. 30, 2006 and not turn down that back country road.
Only had my license for a month, it was great I had freedom to go any where I wanted in my sweet purple car. It was just another day after school and I was just making my way home. Most of that week I had taken the long way home, but for some reason that day I decided to take the short cut down a country road. Everything was fine until I reached the stop sign. The corn was up and every country driver knows that when corn is up there are some roads that it hard to see what is coming at you. Well this was one of those road that is well known for antecedences at this time of year.
When I first started driving my dad had told me to stop like you would at a regular stop sign then ease up to see around the corn. It just happen on this day coming down the road saw me doing that and thought I was pulling all the way out. He swerved into the lane next to me trying to avoid me, but clipped my back end only a inch form my door. As my car spun out into the intersection my life flash before my eyes. It had to be the most scariest moment of my life.
Of course I was upset it was my new car and I thought it was all my fault. Needless to say the cop gave me the ticket because I couldn't remember exactly what had happened. It wasn't till later that night that I realized I hadn't done anything wrong.
By then it was to late to get the ticket off my record so I just went to the class. The worst part was my car was almost totaled and it took 3 months to fix. Even after I got my car back I was reluctant to drive.
So if I could re due one thing it would be not to have gone down that road that day. Who knows maybe I could have been a more confident driver if that hadn't happened to me.

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