near death experience via mattress

so i am spending this christmas in south america, Buenos Aires and Piriopolis, Uruguay, to be exact. i know, i'm ridiculously lucky. my aunt, uncle and cousin have been living in BA for the past year, and i kept saying i was going to get down there, and here i am, FINALLY!! so i got here the day before my birthday, and on my birthday we took a ferry (one hour trip) from BA to Colonia, Uruguay. Then we rented cars (hahaha they have Thrifty car rental in Uruguay!) and drove through Montevideo to Piriopolis. We had four FABULOUS days at the beach, including my 25th birthday!! which was AMAZING! usually my birthdays suck!! but in south america christmas eve is like one huge party, everyone out on the streets dancing, drinking, havign a good time! we were all out till 4 am drinking and having a great time.

so on our drive back to Colonia we're driving along, me nadine and paul are sleeping in the backseat. when all of the sudden i hear, "SHIT!" and bolt awake as our car swerves and i see a mattress fly off the roof of the pick-up truck in front of us and almost hit us, but my uncle artfully swerves and the mattress only takes off our side mirror instead of flipping us over into the ditch. no! so when my aunt goes to ask the driver about the whole deal all he has to say is "lo ciento" and that all he has on him is a cervesa and 8 pesos... yeah... so we wedge the side mirror back on and hope the rental place doesn't notice... we turned down the insurance.