And a story:
Topside of the Outer Loop of the DC beltway, a snaking nightmare of 4-lane highway. Non-work day with very light traffic[1] , driving with my son in the car.
It was dim and foggy morning...it had been dry for days, and overnight rained enough to lift the oil off the road... slick enough that I backed off to around 50 - and I still felt a little sliding going on.
Get past the Mormon Temple curve. Oh look, red-lights, firetrucks, ah, a spin-out involving three cars...
Back to highway speed, taking the left split in the road and whoosh... guy whips past me, a mile from the curve with the 20' high 50 MPH sign...
I tell my son: "Man, I know I'm going too fast... what's he doing... he's not going to make this..."
He come's loose, somehow hits the inside barrier first, outside barrier, inside barrier, and back to the outside... spinning the whole time.
"Dad, you are AWESOME!!"
[1] by any standard, not just DC-beltway standards
This is by far not the worst thing I've seen, just on this stretch of road - just the best story.
And...people wonder why if I'm up at 3am, I go ahead and go to work.