Okay, now I've graduated from running over gracery carts to telephone poles.  
First I backed into the one across the alley with the pickup and now, on the drive home Friday, a bunch of gangbanger looking kids in a Buick came roaring out of an apaertment complex, into my lane and in order to miss them I took out another pole at about 40 MPH.
The truck really sustained pretty minor damage compared to the pole, but the kids took off and which has the insurance company thinking somethings fishy, so I think I'll be buying a fender and trying my paint sklls out.