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Ok just off the top of my dome in this month alone. I have practically lost all my hours making it impossible to pay next months rent, I've realized my room mate is annoying as all sin, I ended things pretty badly with Brittani assuring she never call again, especially after what I said to her. I now know my very best friend Nelson is rather selfish and mostly only looks after himself. I had to break into my own apartment by climbing up a 3 story building in the freezing rain. (That makes near death experiecnce number 1.) Though it was exciting because me and my friend al totally got our spiderman skills on that day I do NOT recommend doing that to anyone else. It was extremely dumb and dangerous. Ok, back to november..Find out my father has cancer, my mother is suffering from depression now that both her sons are gone. Oh and get this, my apartment building almost burns to the ground;
Just last night I finally found another part time job with Al to help with the bills, but driving back my car starts to make weird noises and smoke comes out so I pull over on the side of the highway. I try to start it again but it sounds horrible so I call Al to pick me up. I leave a note in the car saying that I was having engine problems and will get it towed tomorrow, but when Al and I get back to my place everyone is telling me I have to go back and get it because nj department of transportation is a building full of douches and they will tow it anyway.
Now at roughly 12 in the morning Al, Nick, and myself drive all the way to the car which is at least a half hour away and try to figure out what to do. It won't start up again, and we see it's leaking oil so we pull up to a gas station and I have to buy some. We get back to the car put in the oil and cross our fingers. But as we try to start the car the battery dies out (I'm not even making this up.)
So now we have to jump the battery but by the time we do that the 4 bottles of oil that I bought have completely poured out of the engine. Needless to say I was a lil frustrated. We decide to put the car in neutral and push this old ass mercedes benz a 1/4 mile to the nearest exit. Trust me I say this car was heavy, it's steel since it was made before cars were made of the cheap poly plastic crap they are now.
They're pushing and I'm behind the wheel trying my best to steer it, but I see we're getting closer and closer to the actual highway, both of them are screaming at me to turn it and I'm yelling I'm trying. Just then a car zooms past us by a foot or so and both nick and al jump out of the way, but it gets better. Not but 3 seconds after that car nearly hits me a SEMI-TRUCK comes speeding down and cracks off my side mirror. It was that fucking close to me!! I swear to you a couple more inches to the right and he would have completely hit me and I would have died. I mean he tore that mirror clean off. I think we all shit a brick when that happened, I know I was at a loss for words. All you could hear was a "wtf" and girlish scream. I won't say who among us shouted what because frankly that's not important.
We still had to push the car to a gas station or a building parking lot so the mission continued even though in our minds we're freaking out because we all almost just died. You would think that would be enough danger for one night, but oh you'd be wrong. I'm Herro Raymond, if I do something I do it right. Nick and Al get pretty tired from pushing the car so we come up with the bright idea of keeping my car in neutral and pushing it with nicks car. Seems simple enough right??? Wrong. Dead wrong. You see we basked in joy as we made to the exit in lightning speed but forgot that the exit goes downhill. As I'm speeding down this exit I really think to myself, "this is it... this is how I'm gonna die. I did NOT see this coming!"
It wasn't like I was on the side of the road anymore, I was on an exit so I couldn't hit my brakes or I'd get smashed into from the back, and furthermore I couldn't lose that momentum or we'd really be stuck, so I steered a car that was out of my control down a hill and past an intersection. If it wasn't 2 in the morning I know that would've been it for me. Luckily I made it in one piece down the ramp, I couldn't say the same for my car. We make it to an office building and now have to push this 2 ton tank uphill into the parking lot. We were all dead tired by the end of this ordeal and I almost died twice! That semi shit was scary as hell, I really almost got cut in half by that thing.
I've realized I almost have a near-death experience one a month, but I'm going on once a week in november. I know I said I'm an adventure junkie but damnit. To end the list of november and keep in mind this is just so far we still have roughly 2 weeks left. I almost died again and now I without a doubt need a new car. This is very troublesome, I think Ima do something safe now like read or listen to music.
Herro Raymond
Btw, it was scary but we all laughed about it on the way back home.
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