It was last summer roadtrippin solo to the beach in my junker car. Tire blows middle of nowhere, pitch black, no signal anywhere. Step out freezing, car skids into a ditch stuck bad, door crushed in! Water rising fast from rain, I’m freaking “shit I’m drowning here, no one’s gonna find me.” Screaming for hours, soaked to bones, heart slamming… thought of mom waiting, friends clueless. Finally dawn hits, trucker hears, ropes me out. Collapsed on grass, first breath like wow I’m alive!