How I lost my faith in my car, part two: How NOT to make a U-turn
We made it through Chicago okay, and got to Peggy’s house. Peggy’s dad gave me another bottle of premixed coolant as a joke gift. <— HINT: MORE FORESHADOWING. He also gave me a better screwdriver to keep in the car. Also at Peggy’s house I opened the bleeder valve on the radiator and topped off the coolant one last time.
Then I drove up to my dad’s. No problems.
Now it’s the 27th of December and we’re driving home. We’re in the U.P. Peggy wants to snowshoe. We stop at some waterfalls in Munising, go snowshoeing. Back to the car, pack the snowshoes in the car. I get ready to turn around.
Picture this. I’m parked on the side of the road, on the inside corner of a curve. The road doesn’t seem that busy, so I attempt to do a U-Turn where I’m parked. I look, no one is coming. I start turning around, but the right side of the car is embedded pretty good in the snowbank. Right after my tires catch on the pavement, I start turning pretty sharply, and that’s when I see a crazy yooper flying around the corner, zooming past my car in the other lane.
BAM! I slam into his car door with the brush catcher on my car.
His car door is crumpled pretty badly, but it’s just the one car door, and it still opens anyway. The brush catcher just sheared off my car as neat as can be. No one is hurt.
The state police invedigating the incident determine that I’m at fault (I can accept that, but the other guy still shouldn’t have been going so fast). According to Michigan state law, the officer has to write me a ticket. So I get a ticket for Failure To Yield. And since I’m out of state, I have to pony up then and there.
Part two costs:
- Failure to Yield: $50.00.
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