driving in the snow SUCKS!!

so i barely managed to get my rental car, as i had no clue that it closed early on new year's eve. i got there at 2:05pm after waiting 1h to get my thesis bound (YAYAY!!), and the closing time was 2pm. fortunately, since i'm their 28 day customer, they waited for me....then offered me any car in the lot! free upgrade! too bad there wasn't much...he suggested i get the pontiac grand prix--it looked very sleek and sporty, but only 20 mpg. beautiful storm grey-blue color too! so i decided to splurge on gas and get it...but then he tells me somebody else reserved it later in the week! ARG!!! so since he was getting impatient, i decided to bypass the little chevorlet (orange, but good milage) and get the boring ol' taurus in boring ol' beige. at least it has leather interior and sunroof, but it STINKS like 2ndhand smoke. soooooo bad i had to get TWO air fresheners, but it still stank! i wanted to switch it, but didn't want to annoy the guy anymore. =(

so i drove my "new" car with radu to his apt 50 miles away...and it began to snow snow snow. at one point, i skidding left-right-left, and freaked myself out!! after that i drove SUPER slow...i hated the entire drive! my hands were cramping up from gripping the steering wheel so tight! we saw at least 5 cars that had spun-out, including a couple pile-ups. it was HORRENDOUS driving conditions, and it had to be the first day of my east-coast driving! ugh! thank goodness radu was there to advise me when to slow down, etc. good practice for the rest of the week, as i have to drive 45 min to work and it's forecasted to snow snow snow some more!! great for boarding, horrible for driving!