If I hadn't been drunk on my ass I might have noticed the weather report. But then since I was drunk on my ass I didn't even realize I shouldn't have been driving, either.
Barely 23 years old, I was doing the usual, hitting the gogo bars looking for some action. Normally I did pretty well, the girls showed off their stuff and I had a few dollars in my jeans so I got noticed.
But it was getting late and the pickings were getting slim. I even made a stab at Missy, the bartender. She was around 40 and a bit on the chunky side, but she was also happiest sitting naked with a cock in her mouth. I had found that out a month or two earlier when I was sitting at the bar, having myself one of those nights when I struck out. She just came up to me and smiled sweetly.
"Dan, I just love to suck cock." She told me, right out of the blue.
I didn't need to be asked twice. Sure she was older, that didn't hurt anything one bit. She was like a Mink in heat, too. She had her inner muscle trained, she could clamp down like a steel vice and actually pull on my hard cock as she lifted up.
When Missy fucked, she fucked! None of that laying there and letting a guy do it, she climbed on and took over. I kinda liked that.
So I hit on her for a rerun.
No luck there, she had already hooked up with one of the other guys that was getting desperate. But she smiled at me, "Next time, Dan?"
I nodded, slipping her a five, a bit dissappointed. Might as well keep her in reserve, a guy never knows.
So I struck out, finally I gave up and headed for my old Nova. The big engine fired right up and I took off towards my house out in East County.
It had been just under 50 degrees when I left my house, I hadn't even bothered with a coat. I did notice on the walk to my car that the East wind out of the gorge had picked up and it had a real bite to it, it was now close to freezing. I tugged my shirt tightly against my chest, wishing I had brought my coat.
It was a short 15 mile run to my house and few acres halfway up the side of a canyon, the last part of the road was fairly steep and winding. I enjoyed living out in the country, it was quiet, no neighbors close enough to see or hear. I fiddled with the radio as I drove, found a rock station and turned it up loud enough to cover the roar of the dual exhaust pipes.
Then it started to rain, I knew what that meant. Ice for sure, a cold East wind out of the gorge with warmer air coming in off the coast was a sure thing for an ice storm. But I figured I could get home and inside long before it got too bad, the roads were still just wet.
It started to get slick just 5 miles from my house and I still had the long winding uphill stretch to go. Near the top of one little rise I felt the rear tires break free, so I steered for the shoulder and some gravel, made it another 100 yards.
Then that was it, the rear tires started to spin and I came to a stop. I put it in park and my car started to slide down the hill. I stepped on the brakes and it stopped sliding, but if I took my foot off the brakes it slid again. I tried setting the emergency brake, that didn't work.
Finally the car slowly slid to a stop, one wheel off the shoulder. I was going nowhere. I looked at my gas gauge, it was hovering just above empty. Enough to get back to town with no problem but idling? Maybe an hour or two.
The heater was on full blast and losing ground, I could no longer see out the window as ice began to pile up on the wipers.
Nothing left to do but walk the last couple of miles to my house. I got out and promptly fell on my ass. Walking on the road was impossible, so I climbed over a nearby barbed wire fence and headed out towards my house. I felt the wire snag my slacks and bite into me, so I swore a bit. I reached down and felt my thigh, it felt wet. I knew I was bleeding a little.
I could walk in the field, feeling the grass crunch down with each step. It was pitch black out, now nearly 3 in the morning.
My shirt and slacks were doing little to help, in short order I couldn't feel my feet or my hands. I brushed at my shirt, ice was collecting on it. I was getting way too cold, my hands and feet started to ache. I hadn't even made it half a mile, I knew I still had a couple of miles to go.
I decided to go back to my car, so I turned and headed for the fenceline. After a couple of hundred yards and no fence I realized I didn't know for sure which way the road was. I had been moving slightly downhill, that was easier but there was clumps of brush and I got turned around somehow.
I stumbled along, found some trees. That helped some in keeping the cold rain from hitting me. I could barely see them, it was so dark out. I began to work my way through them, holding my arms out to protect my face. Oddly, I seemed to be getting used to the cold, I could feel the ice in my hair and on my clothes but it didn't bother me any more.
I was tired though. I had almost decided to sit down and rest when I saw a dim light through the trees. The light was downhill so I headed that way. There was a steep bank I had to go down, then I climbed the other side. As I came out of the trees I felt the crunch of gravel, knew I was on a road. I thankfully could still see the light.
The light was on a porch that loomed up out of the darkness as I got closer. I knocked on the door, got no answer. I was looking around for a tool of some kind to break in with when an inside light came on.
The door opened, a heavyset man stood there looking at me. He had a shocked expression on his face.
"My God! Come in, quickly!" He stood aside as I came in.
Heat! Blessed heat! There was a wood stove, a fire raging in it. I headed right for it.
"What happened?" He asked me as I huddled toward the fire.
"My car got stuck, the ice."
"You walked all the way down here?"