It was my car, and I was driving it when I headed towards that wall. And it looked WAY worse from the drivers seat -- that wall coming right at you is scary. All I was thinking was "$%^#$^ -- I have a damned expensive repair bill in my near future".
It was just idiocy on my part. I was refusing to back off, even though the tires were acting greasy and the car was oversteering badly. The moral is: never try to impress your passenger A better moral is: listen to what your car is telling you.
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