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Note: While it’s true that many things are based on actual events, the characters contained within this strip are not meant to be direct analogs for actual people. They are not based off of people living, dead, or undead and any resemblance is coincidental. Nor are they based off of Ferrets.
Because that would be weird.
I had this terrible feeling they were going to end up stranded on the side of the road. Mind you, we don’t know yet that the gas station is open, but still.
Y’know, I’ve never understood how people end up off the side of the road. I mean, all you have to do is slow down. And if it’s still not safe, you pull off.
Lo and behold though, any time I have to drive in bad weather (especially on the stretch of I65 between Chicago and Lafayette, IN where I live) I see half a dozen cars in the ditch.
What I</ don’t understand is how people end up on the side of the road when the weather isn’t all that bad. Then again, these are probably the same people who are eager to pass me when I’m doing around 55 in a 45 mph zone…
First, I love the action in the last panel.
Second, ending up in the ditch is very very easy. All you have to do is hit a patch while driving too fast. A slick patch, a non-slick patch, a patch of hard snow, a patch of gravel, doesn’t matter. And ‘too fast’ doesn’t always mean fast. 10mph can be too fast in some situations.
After my wife and I bought our current car, when we got the first snowfall of the year I drove out to a local parking lot that hadn’t been plowed yet and purposefully did my best to lose control to see how the car felt and reacted in those conditions. Losing momentary control isn’t the problem — it’s not knowing how to recover.
This is true.