Strangers rock

Snow!!  It started yesterday and hasn't stopped yet.  They closed the highway at least twice when it got really bad.

Tonight we held the first meeting of our unnamed writing group.  This time we all just brought in some stuff we'd written in the past, but we all agreed we'd write something new for next week.  It went well, and we all got an idea where our strengths were and where we needed improvement.

Afterward, I got turned around in the dark and snow and started heading home in the wrong direction.  Okay, it probably would have happened even without the dark and snow.  I get turned around pretty easily.  In any case, when I realized I was driving the wrong way I tried to use a driveway to turn around, but over-estimated the width of the driveway and got stuck in the two foot deep ditch that had been hidden by the snow.

As I was trying to pull out with no success, a passing truck stopped and the driver offered to help.  Neither he nor I had any tow cables, so we tried using the truck to push me out.  No good, there was just too much frickin' snow hanging on to the wheels.  After another minute the owner of the house came out with a couple of snow shovels and helped us try to dig some of the snow out from under the wheels.  We worked at it for a few minutes, but it was becoming clear that the ditch was too steep and the car wasn't going to get out under its own power.  That was about the time the second truck stopped, and this guy had a pretty heavy tow cable in his trunk.  He was even willing to get on his back in the snow and wriggle under my car to connect it.  Two minutes later, my car was back on the road again.

Overall, I was probably stuck for less than a half hour.  It's because of people like them that I always try to stop if I see someone else stuck or having trouble.  Granted there's not much I can do with my little sedan, but I could at the very least give them a ride to the nearest gas station or let them use my cell to call a truck or something.