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I've been driving for years, and for the first time the other day, I hit a patch of black ice. For those who don't know, it's ice that you can't see. The first thing you know about it is when your car goes off in a different direction with you unable to control it.
So there I was, happily tootling off to work over the windy country road, when I hit it. I turned steering wheel one way, car went the other. Being the knowing driver I am, I steered with the skid so as not to lose control. I had to stop this when a field got too close, complete with hedge, fence and ditch.
I managed to regain control and carried on slowly and safely, when what should wander into my path but a sodding pheasant. Don't know if you have them in America, they look like this:
Right into my path it walked. Now, bearing in mind what had just happened with the ice, what do you think: a) the likelihood of me swerving or braking for it was, and, b) the liklihood of feathers covering the road?
I'm pleased the story has a slightly novel ending, because it (and I) could have ended in a field, in thick fog, with no one around. ****ing ice. Be careful out there, kids.
So there I was, happily tootling off to work over the windy country road, when I hit it. I turned steering wheel one way, car went the other. Being the knowing driver I am, I steered with the skid so as not to lose control. I had to stop this when a field got too close, complete with hedge, fence and ditch.
I managed to regain control and carried on slowly and safely, when what should wander into my path but a sodding pheasant. Don't know if you have them in America, they look like this:

Right into my path it walked. Now, bearing in mind what had just happened with the ice, what do you think: a) the likelihood of me swerving or braking for it was, and, b) the liklihood of feathers covering the road?
I'm pleased the story has a slightly novel ending, because it (and I) could have ended in a field, in thick fog, with no one around. ****ing ice. Be careful out there, kids.