[npaulseth]

2 different times. They were both in my WRX. One time was when I was being very stupid, this is most likely the reason I don't street race. I was on 35N going to Duluth with my g/f, and two cousins in the car with me. I wanted to see what then was a stock WRX, could do. So I took it up to 130 MPH (it makes a nice howling noise at that speed) and see a semi in the right lane about 700 feet from us (I'm in the left lane.) So I start slowing down, but not fast enough. Well, about 200 feet in front of us the semi swervs into my lane. My heart just sinks. There is a slow car in the right lane, and I'm still doing like 120. So I get on the brakes pretty hard, and the semi swerves back into his lane. Doesn't sound like much, but with my g/f and 2 family members, it was enough to scare the piss out of me.

#2. Going to work at 8:30 on 35W. Rush hour. Doing 50 in the left lane with about 6-7 car lengths inbetween me and the suburban in fron t of me (I like my space so people can merge.) Well, it had just snowed the night before, and there was still snow piled up along side the concrete bariers, but none on the road really (must have plowed and melted.) Then I see this snowplow coming down the left lane going southbound. About a 150 feet in front of me, maybe more or less, I don't know, the suburban slams on his brakes, and at the same time, the snowplow must have hit a big pile of snow, throwing it up and over the barrier, into my lane, in between the suburban and I. So I slam on the brakes, slow down about 10 mph, and then hit the snow. So I slide into the back of the suburban, who is completely stopped I think, doing 45 mph. Scariest thing ever. Totalled my 2003 WRX with lots of options, and I was only 18. I walked a way with a little bump on my knee. If I was in my del sol, I may have been killed. It takes a lot of damage to total out a 2003 car... I wrote subaru a thank you letter for having such good saftey designs built into there car. I will always love subaru for building such safe cars. Oh ya, and the suburban drove off after I hit him. Cop thinks they didn't have insurance or something crazy like that.

Noah