(this story has already been posted on my blogger account which is where I do the majority of my posting these days, I just felt like it needed to be posted here to)my blogger address is ([link])

Ok so last night I was driving down a side road on the way to a friend's house to play a game of Vampire the Masquerade, I was driving about 20-25mph when my car hit a patch of black ice and skidded on the road running straight into a mailbox. Seeing as I was not hurt and my car seemed to be in no danger of bursting into flames, I exited my vehicle and went up to the house, knocked on the door and explained what had happened, the owner was quite understanding, seemingly more worried about my physical well being than the condition of his mailbox (apparently there are still decent folks in the world) I apologized and offered to make restitution, I come to find out that the mailbox was rotting away and that he had already purchased the materials to replace it. He told me not to worry about it, and that he was just glad that I was ok and that I had been honest and told him what had happened instead of just driving off. He told me to just go home and not worry anymore about it, and to drive safe. I thanked him, apologized again, and said God bless, upon which time I finished the short drive to the friend's house where I recounted my story to them, sat down to collect my nerves, with no real intention of staying to play the game. Fortunately (I guess) as luck would have it, some of the group had been wiser than I and decided they would not be making the drive down the side roads to my friend's so a mutual concensus was reached that everyone would go home and drive carefully.
This morning I told my father about the accident and we spent time assessing the damage (a few dents and scrapes) and then I washedthe hood, we used rubbing compound, he is touching up a few spots of paint, and I will then be waxing the car. Seeing as it's an 11 year old car it we are nto going to get the dents fixed as it is not really worth spending over a grand to fix a decade old automobile. Anyway that's what happened.