“Tell us about your worst driving in the snow story.”
Oh, man. Okay, so I was driving home. This was like two years ago, last year maybe. And I was trying to get to church. It was the Advent Penance service. Yeah, so it was last year around Christmas. I was driving back from Lansing, and I’m driving home, and it was bad but it then got really bad the last five miles, okay, to my church. Like real — like I have never been able to just not — I couldn’t even tell if my car was moving, because the whiteout was so whiteout. The motion of the snow, and there was — and you couldn’t — in relation to nothingness, right? Like there was nothing. I couldn’t see the snow land, I couldn’t see beyond the snow.
And I’m driving, and I’m like, at this point, like, it’s just full-blown talking to God at this point. Because I’m just like, “Lord, like if you want — Don’t you want me to go to church?” Like, “Why are you making this harder?” Like, “Why are you making this so hard on me right now?” Like, “This is scary and this is crazy.”
Well. After that, after that prayer, you know, there was a brief, a brief clearing. And in front of me were people in the road, because their cars had completely fallen off the side. It wasn’t just like a ditch. It’s like a cliff. Okay, so their cars are vertical. Like, the engine part’s up in the air, the trunk is like on the ground. You know, on this very steep hill. There’s two cars like this. And the people, they had gotten out and they were standing in the road. And I’m thinking — and I would, I would have hit them and killed them, okay? Because one, I was trying to stay on the — and I could barely feel any kind of rumbles and I’m just trying to stay on any kind of rumble that I could barely feel through all the layers of snow. I couldn’t see, again, I couldn’t even tell you — I had to look at the speedometer to see if I was even moving, because at this point, I wasn’t even adding gas anymore. I wasn’t really braking. I’m just kind of like, I don’t really know if I’m driving off the side of the road. I couldn’t see anything!
And these people, why would you stand in the middle of the road when you know that the drivers have zero visibility right now? This road’s normally a 55 mile an hour road, by the way. And I guess that they were shaken up and they were like talking and they were like — and I’m so glad for that break in the snow. I was — again, I would have killed one of them. I would have hit one of them, you know, I would, I would not have, I would not have seen them.