[NOS2Go4Me]

So, I spent a week and a half in the Cambridge / KW area with my G/F and then we spent a few of those days around the Golden Horseshoe.

All in all we did just over 2000 KMs, ate lots of fast food, I met a lot of her family and we had a pretty damn good time!

Then there was the trip home. Cue the PoS minivan brigade.

We're N/B on the 400, just south of Major Mack, in the hammer lane. Traffic's doing 120+, easy. All of a sudden, a giant piece of black plastic (spray shield? serving platter?) flies off this van, comes spinning towards us like a Negative Zone prison for Zod and attempts to mate with the windshield.

I dodge right, but can only manage half a lane's width thanks to the rolling parking lot that is the 400. It strikes the driver's mirror assembly shattering the coloured upper half of the housing and then spins onward to places unknown.

After removing my heart from my throat, I see red. Buddy rabbits for Major Mack, I come up beside him... and now he's "leanin' back", hiding behind the door frame.

After realizing I was too pissed to have anything resembling a civil conversation with the dirtbag, I elected to let him go. Plus, I really need to program the OPP's number into my phone. That and I didn't want a trip to the ARC over a mirror at 8:00 at night.

So, without further ado, here's the pics:








It took me about an hour because that door panel was TIGHT (yay Mazda for wicked assembly quality!) and I wasn't going to rush it. Now I just have a few minor scratches to touch up and I'm good.