One story sticks out for me in my life. I was driving from WI to MI late at night during a snow storm. Being 23 and stupid, I was thrilled the roads were nearly empty because I could speed along with total impunity in my little Nissan Sentra with threadbare tires. So I am zipping along at 75 mph bopping around to Jimmy Cliff, deftly passing cars that were sensibly chugging along at 45-50 mph in the slippery snow and not paying much attention...until the rear end of a semi loomed out of the pitch black right in front of me. I was of course passing in the left lane. I looked right. Newp, couldn't get back over because a car was there. And to the left there was the snow/ice-laden thin shoulder and then the median and the West bound side. No choice, I veered towards the shoulder. Weirdly the intuition not to slam on the breaks was there. I gently tapped and deaccelerated. I'm a horrible driver, but somehow that instinct was there. The idea of course was to transition to driving on the left shoulder until my lane cleared. But it was full of ice and snow, so my car quickly veered into the median and lurched towards oncoming traffi. I was staring right at the West bound trucks who were (like I had been) zipping along 75 MPH through the snow storm. Heading into them I would have been annihilated, and by then my car was totally out of control and just tearing across the divider. But then, inexplicably, my car started stopped it's deadly course (maybe a hidden ledge of snow) and began whipping around in circles. I was feet away from entering oncoming traffic. And then, before I knew it, I was pointed back at my East bound side, but still moving fast. Just back at the East bound side. And it kept moving, right back into traffic. Seamlessly. A perfect merge. It all happened in seconds, but time really did feel like it slowed down. And the weird thing is that the whole time it was going on, I wasn't scared. I felt like relaxed, like I was just waiting for the situation to straighten itself out. Once back in moving traffic (where I quickly joined the adulting realm and began a cautious crawl in the right lane with other sensible drivers), I pretty much couldn't believe what had happened.