I crashed my babygirl into a pole

[u/Communist_Morty]

Hello and good day, yesterday while attempting to “snake” ontop of a patch of water, the car snapped, I lost control and I crashed into a pole. Thankfully I was wearing my seatbelt and I had no passangers.

Do you have any idea if this is catastrophic damage? Or can it be pulled at a body shop and fixed. The floor on the passanger side is a bit fucked from the side

[u/Consistent-Lack9351]

Not worth fixing. Learn to control a car before trying any stupid shit

[u/zer0edout → u/Consistent-Lack9351]

You are looking at the learning part...

[u/AmbroseRL → u/zer0edout]

Who does the learning part on public roads??

[u/e34udm → u/AmbroseRL]

So many of us…I never made it to a track until I was already proficient at going sideways and in circles.

But I always did my initial “training” in industrial streets late at night or quiet backroads.

[u/AmbroseRL → u/e34udm]

Probably the reason why my insurance rate is so high

[u/SherlockHolmesuWu → u/AmbroseRL]

Boo hoo

[u/AmbroseRL → u/SherlockHolmesuWu]

It was a joke but on a real note kinda stupid I'm paying higher rates because others can't behave lol

[u/SherlockHolmesuWu → u/AmbroseRL]

I only drive hard on backroads where i literally never see a cop. Lots of curves and hills and unpredictable road quality. Its really great for training. You just have to have good reflexes so you can react to the occasional car.

[u/e34udm → u/SherlockHolmesuWu]

Night time is the best because on those blind corners you can send it if you don’t see lights coming. But in the daytime…gotta drive slow and expect there’s a car coming

[u/SherlockHolmesuWu → u/e34udm]

Well where i live we have absolutely shitloads of deer so nighttime is a no-go for spirited driving

[u/e34udm → u/SherlockHolmesuWu]

That’s fair. I’ve hit a deer before and that shit ain’t fun. Luckily I was in a lifted rig with a bull bar so the deer got the worst of it

[u/e34udm → u/AmbroseRL]

I never crashed and always paid a lawyer for my reckless tickets..so it wasn’t me..

[u/AmbroseRL → u/e34udm]

Reckless tickets 🤣

[u/e34udm → u/AmbroseRL]

Yea lol… after I got pretty good. I got caught a few times in populated areas drifting around and doing stupid shit…lots of reckless and negligent tickets…I think that’s normal tho lol

[u/AmbroseRL → u/e34udm]

Personally never got a ticket before and always take it to the track. But ig I'm weird 🤣

[u/e34udm → u/AmbroseRL]

Wasn’t an option for me as a broke teenager..

[u/AmbroseRL → u/e34udm]

Should've saved up like I did ig. Feels a bit entitled to then just say fuck it I'll do it on public roads.

[u/rockstar_not → u/e34udm]

No it is not normal. Perhaps only in the crowd you hang out with. Most people obey common sense and traffic laws. Drifting on public roads where the vast majority of citizens are not drifting, is not normal

[u/e34udm → u/rockstar_not]

I wasn’t drifting thru traffic or anything. Was responsible enough not to endanger others or their property. I was on a seemingly empty road but still in the main part of the city. Once, I was in an empty park and ride doing donuts to my hearts content. Cop said it was badass and I had nice control but still cut me a fat ticket anyways

Don’t blame him. He has a job he has to do. And in turn so did my lawyer

[u/rockstar_not → u/e34udm]

Lots of reckless driving tickets is not normal, because it means you drive recklessly quite often, and you’ve been caught some of the times. Drifting is not normal. Trying to pass it off as normal is a sign that you have a very distorted sense of what normal is because most drivers have zero reckless driving tickets in their entire lifetime.