I had a rather large box to ship via UPS this mornin. Since I've thoroughly 'had it' with the local people runnin the UPS place here, I had to take it to Defiance. I left shortly after 10 AM. There was an over night dustin of snow on everything. It was melted . . . or so I thought.
I'm drivin 25-30 mph on what I thought was wet pavement. Then for no apparent reason, I lost traction and my rear end slid sharply to the left. It was my first known patch of black ice of the winter. There was no oncomin traffic and no cars parked on the street. I regained control when my tires got to dry pavement without hittin anything. I glanced in my mirror. I knew there was traffic behind me. They backed off rather quickly, but I didn't see them sliding.
Less than a half mile later, I see a mini van backin out of a driveway. It was one of those 'back ups' that you just knew wasn't gonna stop before you got there. I glanced at the wet lookin pavement, hopin it wasn't more black ice and gently applied my brakes while layin on the horn. It wasn't ice, I got stopped just before I got to the drive, still layin on the horn. The lady was about half out of the driveway before she looked my way. She then graciously pulled back into her driveway and I drove on wonderin if I should continue my journey. After all, don't they say that the third time is the charm???
I decided to travel on bein super vigilant, wonderin how true the third time is a charm thing really is. I delivered my package to USPS and returned home without further incident.
Sooo, there will be no photos today . . . Which I suppose is a good thing . . . I think my insurance guy would have wanted photos of the damage, anyway.
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