Wednesday, December 10, 2003 #

Travels to work

I hate snow.  Especially when I have to drive in it.  Now, I have a Mustang with good solid tires (Aquatread 3) and 140lbs of sand in the back.  Last night I thought that I'd be OK.  First, I can't get out of my parking spot.  I tried everything.  Rocking the car didn't work and going very slow didn't work.  So, I took out the good ole handy dandy ice scraper and proceeded to scrape the concrete.  This worked!  I was finally out of my parking spot!  Now, to get to work.  Usually it takes me 20 minutes to get to/from work during rush hour.  So, I knew it was going to take awhile.  I get onto the mainroad, and find out that it's not salted or sanded, just plowed. Great.  Well, I'm on my way into work, and a SUV is stuck near the top of a hill in my lane.  Great.  Then I realize, there's an idiot in front of me.  He's stuck near the crest of a hill and he's going in reverse and then putting it back into drive and gunning his car!  Hint of advice: when stuck on snow/ice DO NOT HIT THE ACCELLERATER HARD!  So, of course, since he's stuck, I get stuck.  Great.  But after a bit of wiggling, I get my car unstuck.  Guess who's still sitting there.  After this, i believed it to be smooth sailing to work... and it was.  Much to my surprise though, the subdivision that my work is located in has better roads than the mainroad I was just on!  How ironic.  As I said earlier, I hate snow.

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