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I was holding the cop’s hand up. The next day I was at the building trying to tell the story, and nobody believed me. They all thought it was BS. Five minutes later, Viscera walks in and was like, “Hey, Johnny, was that you standing on the side of the road just outside of Cleveland taking pictures with some cop and your belt?”
    Everyone just looked at me, and I was like, “Yes, thank you. True that. That was me.”
    Just goes to show, it doesn’t matter who you are, for some reason people see that championship and go nuts.
    Divas in a Ditch
    Mickie James
    Life on the road is rough because if it’s under three hundred miles to the next town, we’re driving it. I remember there was a Monday Night Raw in Sioux Falls and I was driving back to Omaha because that’s where we were flying out of the next morning. There was this huge blizzard, and they had shut down the roads for a while and weren’t letting anyone drive. So they finally opened the roads, and I was riding with Katie Lea Burchill in this white Dodge Charger. Katie Lea is from Europe, and she was saying how she had never seen snow like this in Europe. So I start telling her, yeah, you need to be really careful because even though they cleaned the roads, there’s still a lot of black ice out there. I was telling her how you could see the ice patches, but how the black ice isn’t really something you could see. I’m sitting there explaining how you’re supposed to navigate your way through black ice while I’m driving, and just as I tell her what you’re supposed to do when you hit a patch of black ice, we hit a patch of black ice. I was like, “Oh no, oh no!” And we started to fishtail a little bit, but luckily I managed to steer the car straight. I was like, “Oh my God, that was a close one.” As soon as I said that, the whole back end spun out and I started doing 360 after 360 after 360 after 360. We were in the middle of the highway with cars flying by us from both sides. In the middle of the road there was this huge median with a big ditch, and we had already done four 360s at least, and there we were in the median still spinning. The only way I can describe it is like we were living in a real-life snow globe because there was snow spinning all around us and there was nothing we could do about it. I’m fearing the worst, and when I look over, Katie is holding on for dear life. We both just kept screaming, “Make it stop, make it stop!”
    Finally we stopped, and we were stuck in the middle of the median in this big ditch and we were packed in about three feet of snow. I get out of the car, and I’m not sure what to do, so I call the tow company, but they tell me that they can’t come out and tow us because the police have just called all people off the road and the tow company needs to wait until the morning to find out if they get the all-clear. But that might not be until five or six in the morning. So I’m on the phone and I ask them, “So what am I supposed to do?” And they tell me that it’s a $1,500 fine if they come out onto the road and help. But I’m outside in this blizzard and my car is stuck in a ditch, so I tell them, “I’ll pay your fine if you come out.” I had a flight to catch the next morning, and I just really wanted to make it to the hotel and get warm. But they told me, “Sorry, ma’am, we can’t do that. It’s against the law.”
    So I had Katie get behind the wheel, and I told her, “Okay, we’re going to rock it. When I tell you to, gun it. Gun it, then let it off, gun it, then let it off.” My job was to push the car while she gunned it, and I thought we could get the car back up the hill. Mind you, it is freakin’ freezing outside, I’m in three and a half feet of snow, and coming from the show I’m still wearing what I wore on Raw , which is Diva clothing: not much to it and definitely not snow appropriate. I have my little leather jacket on and my Diva pants and I have the car rocking, but all