Every year I meet up with my parents and we drive to my aunt's house where we have a family meal, we're often joined by other family members. More recently, my parents have been sleeping at my aunt's house and staying a little longer. I'm very allergic to cats, asthmatic and all that stuff and my aunt has always really loved cats, she often has long haired ones. So, basically, when I end up sleeping there I have to get all dosed up on allergy medication and I use my inhaler constantly, it kind of sucks. This year, to make things simple, I decided to meet my parents at their house on Tuesday, stay there the night, they left for my aunt's on Wednesday and then I would drive up on Thursday (Thanksgiving) and meet up with them at my aunt's.
When I woke up this morning (Thursday/Thanksgiving) it was snowing outside. By the time I was leaving for my aunt's house the snow had turned to hail. I got into the car and drove out toward my aunt's house. I turned onto rt 220 and turned onto a downhill slope, I guess the car hit black ice because it suddenly lost control, spun out and whipped around so that I was facing the wrong way against traffic. Then it went up partway onto someone's lawn and began to tip over, everything in the car was thrown up into the air and then fell back down as the car slammed against a small hill and came to a stop. Nervous, I turned the car back around and started driving towards my aunt's again.
I realized my hands were shaking and then considered that I hadn't checked the car for damage, so I pulled over at the next place I could. I left the car running and got out to check out the side, I closed the door behind me. Everything seemed fine, so I walked to the front to get back in, but, as it turns out, the car auto-locks. All the doors were locked with the key in the ignition and the car running. I could hear the dull rhythm of the music playing from inside the car. I was standing out in the hail. I ran across the street towards a house, but then I spotted a car coming down the road. I flagged the car down and the woman driving it pulled over to the side of the road behind my vehicle. I ran back across the street and explained the situation to her. At this point I noticed that one of the back windows of my car was open about two inches(for when the dogs are riding), we couldn't fit our arms through the crack but the woman opened her trunk and found some random metal rods. After a bit of effort I was able to unlock the back door and get inside! I thanked the woman and she left. Then I turned the car around and drove back to my parents' house.
I spent Thanksgiving alone in the woods with the dogs. I gave them some of my steak.
