August 14, 2008
my sunroof. my bodyguard.
my sunroof saved my life.
as usual, i was going across the 520 bridge to get to work, when out of the clear blue my civic and i were attacked. and my sunroof took the hit and saved ultimately the life of myself and the civic. to set the stage, every morning traffic is inching towards the bridge and then once on the bridge going across lake washington traffic picks up to an average of 45-50 miles per hour. as usual inching and then as i picked up the black porsche boxster behind me decided he was going to try to get ahead by squeezing in between and me and the cars in the other lane in order to go around me and enter the other lane. as he did so, he floored it and sped past me as fast as he could. a few seconds later, i hear a bang and next thing i know i am pelted in the head with a rock. luckily i had my sunglasses on, so the rock hit the bone right above my eye and the glasses instead of ending up hitting my actual eye. then i was like ouch! that hurts like hell, but luckily, i maintained control of the car and stayed straight and in my lane. i continued onto to work with a bit of a headache and funny thing is, after all the porsche’s efforts to get ahead, he ended up behind me to get on the 405. he made no headway, just gave all the other surrounding drivers stress for nothing.
time passes. i put in a full days work. and as i head home, i keep hearing this loud wind-like sound. and i swear my sunroof is not completely closed. i open it and close it about fifteen times. still the wind-like noise. after i get home. i’m like crap my sunroof’s broken. how much is this gonna cost me. so after i get home. i climb a top the civic to find a hella-huge rock wedged in the sunroof track. luckily for me, the sunroof took the brunt of the damage. i was only hit by a small piece of shrapnel from the huge rock. the sunroof took the big hit. if i had been hit in the head with the quarter size rock, lord knows what could have happened in bumper to bumper traffic.
never thought i’d say this, but my sunroof saved my life.