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There is just something about youth that makes you think you're invincible.

Kirk Gray was a pretty typical teenager in that he thought he was invincible,

especially behind the wheel of a car.

So when he and some friends were running late to the movies one night, he hit the gas.

So I had just rained, and I had gotten my driver's license not long ago, and it was dark.

So I was rushing up the road.

I wasn't paying a lot of attention because the music was blasting and we were talking about high school gossip.

And I was just about to blow by the exit when a friend over the back shouted over the din,

you're going to miss it. Turn left, turn left. And so I immediately turn left.

Reflexively, I didn't look at my blind spot.

That's too bad because in his blind spot was a brand new Mercedes-Benz.

I hear it, see it, obviously.

You know, we start squealing and spinning, and eventually we stop this steam coming up from the road,

the orange sodium lights.

And there's no one around, just the two of us cars.

And I unroll my window to apologize.

And the guy gets out of the car, he's looking so angry.

And he points to me and says, you're fucking dead.

I'm going to kill you.

You know, I freeze.

And then I do what seemed to make sense. And I slam on the accelerator. Wow. You know, I freeze, and then I do what seem to make sense, and I slam on the accelerator.

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