Yoda......as I was reading your post....I also thought broken drive shaft.....not a tree branch......thought wow, how lucky it was just a tree branch though.....Interesting how the point of view can change when something so much less serious than it possibly could have been.

LOL....here in KY....it's the stupid possoms that keep going under my truck.....I'm able to avoid the squirrels...possoms are so stupid....I slow down to a stop to let them go back....but they keep coming & waddle right for under my truck instead of turning around. I stopped right in the middle of the road for one late at night...was going to get out & make sure it had moved off the road, but heard another vehicle coming....so slowly moved on with my emergency lights on....I didn't hear a clunk or a crunch....so it seems he must have moved on.

Can relate to the angry keying also....except my truck ended up with the WalMart parking lot shopping basket into the side dent.....I was steaming mad...my truck was also a 2005 that I bought in 2007 & looked beautiful with NO DENTS.......but it's a truck & that's JUST NOT NORMAL.....since that dent.....stbxh didn't get the tail gait up when he was throwing stuff into the truck bed to make room for picking up our daughter at the air port as we were driving in from Calif....& the tail gate slammed down right onto my horse trailer hitch.....think I'm going to demand the money to fix that in my divorce...lol. My other major dent came during the ice storm something I had never experienced before....I had to get to the pharmacy & get my meds so I wouldn't end up in withdrawal....so I wasn't thinking to clearly in the first place....ended up chipping off about a 5 inch circle on the driver side & thought I could melt the rest with the defrost.....tried to inch my way out my gravel driveway, missed & slammed into my mail box that I couldn't see for the ice.....took out the side of my own truck with the mail box......& got stuck in the ditch next to the driveway....needless to say, I didn't make it to the pharmacy.....but when I went out to flag down the next vehicle heading toward town.....it was my pharmacist (now that was what I call a miracle). He was going to bring my prescription when he got off that evening...but ended up sending of over about 1 hour later with another neighbor that had been able to get out & go to a Dr's appointment & needed to pick up meds at the pharmacy.....that whole morning was one miracle after another....as my poor truck sat there with even 4x4 not making it possible to move without some major help.