Mattress Surfing

So… last week I kind of sort of probably totaled my car.

Yes, that’s right!  Last Saturday I was on my way to visit James and Renae down in Costa Mesa.  I was on the 57 south in the fast lane traveling about 75mph in the fast lane.  I had just past the Honda Center and was next to Angel Stadium when the cars ahead of me began to merge out of the lane.  The reason for their actions was that there was mattress in the middle of the lane!  I began to break and I was unable to merge into another lane.  I continued to break…. break…. break… Screech… BANG!!!!!!  I was rear ended by a astro mini-van.  I’m not sure whose car did the screeching.  It took me a little while to figure out that I had been hit, by that time I was in the carpool lane several feet from the van and the mattress.

A CHP officer was soon on the scene and the two vehicles and the mattress where moved onto the shoulder. The paramedics were called along with tow trucks.  Nobody was taken away by the paramedic, but my car was towed…. the muffler was scraping the ground.

I went to urgent care to get myself checked out…. the doctor said that I have a strained neck.

I am now in possesion of a rental car.  The status of my vehicle is unknown… probably totaled.  I am somewhat sore but can survive without medicine. And in conclusion I don’t know what happened to the matress.