My Morning Commute: Way to Go AGS!

So this morning on my way to work, I thought that I might change things up a bit, you know add some excitement...so I drove my car into a ditch.
Here's what really happened:
I take Memorial to San Felipe to get to my office in the Galleria area. Memorial drive (in the Memorial Villages area) is very curvy. The speed limit on the road here is 35, I was going about 37, which was no good becuase the roads were wet this morning. I felt my car hydroplane and begin to spin right as I was coming to a major curve in the road. I remembered in driver's ed that you are supposed to turn into the spin, which I couldn't remember what that meant...my instinct told me to just turn the other way! I did, then my spin just changed direction. When I hit the curve my car went off into the ditch...
This must happen a lot in this area though becuase this is one of the few curves on this road that there is a guardrail there (which I was INCHES away from hitting) and a wide flat shoulder area. Fortunately there was no damage AT ALL to me, my car, or the ditch (other than some tire marks!). I called Michael immediately although I was very shaken. While I was waiting for him to come, a very nice man stopped to check on me and wait with me until Michael got there. He is a director of Young Life in the Memorial area and an AGGIE! You have to understand that this is a residential area with heavy traffic. Tons of people drove by me, but no one stopped! No one but this Aggie named Mike. I love Aggies!
While Mike was waiting with me, a Memorial Villages police man stopped, got out of his car, asked if I was calling a wrecker, then got back in his car and left...thanks a lot buddy!
When Michael pulled up, 2 men from Houston Parks and Recreation Services also pulled up and help pull the car out of the ditch. They were extremely helpful to Michael and I. Thankfully, my brother left his Explorer with us while he is skiing this week and he happened to have a tow strap, so that was useful to us as well.
All in all, a pretty eventful morning. I have never been in an accident before, never had a ticket, nothing...so this was pretty scary for me. God's hand had to have been on me too becuase Memorial is a busy two lane road and no other cars were involved in my mishap, and I was sure I was going to smash into the guardrail and I stopped just inches away from it.
Anyways, all that to say thanks to the Ag and Houston Parks guy that stopped to help! And of course thanks to my husband who was awaken out of the clutches of slumber to pull his wife out of a ditch...that kind of sounds like a metaphor for marriage (but thats another post)!