After my birthday last summer, and after months of saving, I finally had enough money to buy this dirtbike that I had been saving up for. I finally bought it, and it went great for a few weeks. Then one day my neighbor saw me driving it around, and asked me if I wanted to race him. After agreeing, we rode down to the end of the street and discussed the finish line. It was to be two blocks from where we started, and the first one there won. Right from the start, I was winning. I was just trying to be a show off, and it was a mistake. I saw a car coming from straight ahead, and there was no room to avoid it, so i did the only thing i could think to do at that moment. I drove up through my neighbor’s yard, and on the other side of the yard sat a large SUV. I slammed into the side of it at 30MPH, leaving a very large dent in the side of it, and large gashes all over my body. I destroyed my dirbike i worked so hard to get, sprained my ankle, broke a finger, got a lot of cuts, and did $3000 in damages. Needless to say, I was in trouble. It is almost a year later now, and I have only paid off half of the damages.