Moooooo.... Options

[turbohcar]

Well, I'm not sure this is what you're expecting from a "kill" story and thank God it doesn't have anything to do with a DSM but, oh well.

Driving home in the S10 from the old lady's house last night, I was thinking through the fight we had just had. I said some things that I didn't mean.... some that I did. Overall, just a crappy night. Came up to a stopsign about 1AM on a road that usually doesn't have any traffic this time of night. Last night was different. Up ahead I could see that there was a vehicle with it's hazards on in the middle of the road. Another car behind it was turning around in the nearest driveway and coming back towards me to the stop sign. I thought someone had been in a wreck or a car was broken down in the middle of the road. I disregarded it as nothing and turned left, instead of my normal route, and thought I'd go around it and forget about it. Driving down the detour, I noticed a car ahead of me with one headlight out. Again, I disregarded it as normal, clicked my dims on and kept going. Just as I passed the pididdle, I noticed a large black object in my path. Literally, less than a half second later I realized what it was. Here was an oversized Angus calf walking down the middle of Route 9 straight at me. In that split second I did my best to haul the Slut10 down from a 55mph boogie to zero in about a 15 foot space. Needless to say, S10: 1 Angus Cow: 0. Mind you, the truck has an exceptional ABS system on it and I still managed to apply enough pressure to lock 'em up from the time I stepped on it to the time I came to a stop. Lucky for me, I was unhurt, the air bags didn't blow, and it's just the truck that's really REALLY F'cked up. The cow however, was 50 feet across the road from where the truck came to rest and I'm sure, was ground beef. Looking back on it now, I'm very lucky that I wasn't in the Talon. Had I been in a DSM, I'd be in the hospital right now. I thought I'd share my heartache for my daily driver as I only have liability on it and I'm afraid it's going to the scrap heap. Laugh all you want but, it was like hitting a brick wall, but nothing a call to the girlfriend and a change of pants couldn't fix.

[turbohcar]

BTW, this likely means the Talon will become my daily driver...VERY soon. I don't like the idea of not having a backup, but it's all that I've got for now and being as close as it is, it's silly not to.