Recently, I failed to take a turn correctly
I was 17 (now 18, a legal adult) and was off for a ride in my dad's new '06 Honda Civic. I made the decision not to take any drugs or alcohol during the endeavor, which ended up being a good one, as I took a right-angle turn at about 40 mph and smashed the left-front wheel into the far curb.

Airbags went off, my passengers screamed, and the car narrowly missed a pole and some poor guy's garden. We came back onto the street (from off of the curb) and stopped, because the steering was locked.

My friend (passenger) reminds me his bottle of beer is in the car, so off he goes to hide it. Then the police show up.

I explain what happened, they breathalyze me, and I score a solid 0.00, but as the officer administering the test decided, "it must be the operating temperature."

I asked to take it again, in the warmth of his vehicle, and no, officer, it wasn't the operating temperature. I just wasn't drunk. A bit depressing that I could have such a stupid accident without being drunk, though..

Anyways then my friend (not a passenger) reminds me he's left his alcohol in the car. Well, I tell the police about it and when my mom shows up to take me home, I leave with a "Minor in Possession" charge.

Turns out the cops in my city are running out of probation officers, and were more than happy to dismiss the charge when I called and told them I'd learned my lesson, and the alcohol wasn't mine to begin with.

The car was totaled, by the way, but since my dad had been in a previous accident and gotten a settlement check, we actually profited from owning the car for less than a year then crashing it.

I am also failing half my classes at school.

No length pun.
(Zoidberg Jr - Food, you say?, Thu 11 Jan 2007, 0:48, Reply)