My story is a little graphic, so if you don't like bodily injury, skip this post.

I was driving home from work at 11pm. I had a 97 Eclipse. God I loved that car. Anyway, I lived in the mountians and had to take this small two lane highway home. On the west side of the highway was this huge mountain. On the east side was a river. There were lots of curves, but there was this one straight stretch that was just fast enough to get to 110mph with time to slow down safely. On either end of this straight stretch were 2 sharp 40 mph curves.

The trick was to keep the car going at least 65 through the first two turns. I was going 80, which would have been my fasted time yet. Anyway, I missed the second turn, crashed into the mountain, bounced back through the highway and ended in the river.

Here's where it gets graphic. The driver side window imploded and the airbag pushed the glass into my face. I climbed out of the car. At this point, I could see clearly. I even climbed back down into the car to turn the radio off. I then hitch hiked to a hotel. The front desk agent thought she was a nurse or something, so she bandaged me up. I was pretty messed up. Blood everywhere. Anyway, she tied the bandage around my eyes too tightly, which pushed the glass even further into my eyes.

A few hours later, I finally got to a hospital. It took two surgeons about 8 hours to patch me back together again. The end result, is that the lense in my right eye was removed, the cornea looks like a potato chip, and my iris looks like a tear drop.

I even have a piece of glass in my jaw, because they can't take it out without cuting a nerve.

Good times. Good times.