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About a week or little more ago, it snowed a little bit.  It was really nothing to get too excited about.  I drove to work as usual.  However; there is this one area on the Interstate that is very hard to get off on because cars wont let you get over into other lanes.  I have drove this route all the time and had a very hard time trying to get over into the other lane.  I think the only reason cars would slow down to let me over is that they were afraid I might cause a five car pile up.  In reality, I was just hoping they were letting me over into the next lane because they were being nice (or because my turn signal had been on for some time).  On this day, I finally made it into the next lane.  But, just as I did that, a car suddenly slowed down in front of me.  I applied my brakes and my brakes were not braking.  In fact, I was sliding.  I was sliding towards the car in front of me.  I knew that at the speed I was going that the air bag would come out on the car and that there would be some massive damage to both our cars.  I started pumping the brakes in hopes that the car would come to a stop.  No luck with that.  In a split second decision, I figured that I need to quickly steer into the next lane.  Although I did not have time to look in the next lane, I did try to look over into it.  Thank goodness there was no cars in that lane.  I have always heard that it would be best that someone hit you in the side of the car rather you do a direct forward hit.  I think that this decision so far helped to keep me out of the hospital.  But, now I had a new problem.  The car was still sliding while I was in the lane I swerved into.  I kept pumping the breaks and steering the car in the right directions to the point that I was able to avoid hitting the side railings.  I was now safe because the car was now driving in a straight line and not sliding.  It was a pretty exciting ride for me.  I don't want to do it again.