An Email Sent on Dec. 10th, 2008

"Had a near death experience today morning. There was this patch of road  which had had water frozen. The road did not appear any different and the car suddenly started sliding and brakes didn't work. There was no traffic, thankfully. I spun a couple of times and somehow it struck me to turn the wheel against the spin and that broke the ice shhet and the hand brakes worked. I was like 5 feet away from going off the road and into some kind of roadside lake. For those brief moments, I thought everything was OVER. And I learnt that never use shitty cars - I was driving a dodge avenger."