*sigh* Here's what I sent out to my friends after the dreadful 'day of the event':

Ok, I guess most of you are going to hear about it anyway, so I figured that I'll just tell everyone at once. I just bought a 98 Jeep Cherokee, black, 2 door, four wheel drive, 55,000 miles. Basically, I got myself a decent ride. Picked it up on Wednesday. I love my Jeep. It is the most perfect truck I could buy, and in three days I had already put about 350 miles on it. Like seriously, this was the best thing that could have happened to me. So, I go up to my nephew/brothers house yesterday we drove to a park and hung out for a while.

On the way back, he sees a trail. we figure, what the hell, lets try out my 4x4. So we got on the trail, blast Dropkick Murphy's and have a shitload of fun on off roading. At the end we turn around in a field and the truck power slides. He tells me to do it again, so I did. So now we're in the field, spinning around power sliding and drifting and whatever. after a while, I say (no bullshit) "we're pushing our luck. let's do one more and get out of here." so I accelerate, turn right and jerk left, followed by a type of turn I wasn't familiar with.

Next thing I know, I'm standing outside of my truck trying to mentally edit>undo/alt>del>esc/reload whatever just happened. My car is now UPSIDE DOWN in some farmland private property blaring Irish punk music in the middle of nowhere with my nephew laughing his ass off and me running around it yelling at the top of my lungs in tears. I climb back into the car and get back into my seat (yes, upside down), turn my radio off, put the truck in park and take my keys out. I try to get my insurance stuff out of the glove compartment, but that doesn't open just yet.

After another round of me screaming at the top of my lungs trying to tell myself it wasn't real, I call a friend of mine and she talks me down. I cool off, and she instructs me to call my siblings. I call my sister Shannon and she calls my mom and my sister Mary to come for us. when they get there we ran into the guy who owns the land. he came at us on a quad with an automatic weapon strapped to his back (scary frickin day, right?). The man is a Vietnam veteran and a very tough lookin dude. Luckily, he was just about the nicest human being in existence and wanted to help me out instead of press charges. He told me that all he wants is for me to learn a lesson and recognize that there are still good people in the world. I can't be gratful enough for this guy, because I know I would have reacted by having the kids arrested and sueing their pants off. Learned a lot from that guy, as now that is certainly not my disposition.

Skipping the details, we got it towed and reported it to the police. I'm 80% sure that everything is in good order mechanically but the front of my roof, passenger side door and windshield are destroyed, as well as minor scratches everywhere. I have no idea how much this is gonna cost me, but it's possible that it's totaled. when i get my estimate, I'll know whats going on much better. it's either completely scrap and i spent about $7,500 on a lesson about joyriding and trespassing, or it'll run me up another few thousand (which i don't have) to fix. either way, it's definitely the most irresponsible and stupid thing I've ever done in my life. this was MY FAULT, I accept it and own it, and I to make that clear.

i was emotionally destroyed and couldn't bear to look at it. all i wanted to do was sleep so i didn't have to think about it. my sister Mary made me a pot of coffee and gave me a gallon of tea, and from then on i was much more level headed and optimistic. it STILL doesn't seem real, but it is.

Guys, seriously. drifting, power sliding, or whatever you want to call it is a BAD IDEA. I'm lucky to get out with my life and no lawsuit. and for those of us with trucks and SUVs and other 4x4s, that is NOT something they can handle. I'm not gonna lie, it was fun as hell while it was stable, but I'll be damned if i ever do it again. please, learn from my mistake.

OK guys. I'm going to need prayers. A lot of prayers. Please help me out there, ok? I know this isn't exactly Gimbi style behavior, but you won't see much more of it. Hope you learned something from me and please, drive safe.