wow. so fuck this snow, first off.

i was driving home from Owasso last night, and was doing ok until i got to the exchange from 169 to 244, and got stuck on the ramp. seems i got off the tracks and into the snow drift, couldn’t move. i used my keen survival skills…hah…and since i was on an incline, was able to roll backwards, then tried forward, etc, for over an hour, unable to get traction to get myself OUT of the rut i’d now created and back over to the path being driven by others.

mind you, many cars had driven by, just as i had driven by others on the side of the road.

so finally, after probably an hour like i said, a couple in a huge truck pulled up and rolled down their window to check on us, he offered to get out and push but that we wouldn’t get much traction on foot, so i asked him if he would be willing to try pushing me out with his truck, regardless of if it hurts my car, and he agreed. so again, we probably spent 30 minutes doing this, and him even getting out in the snow clearing out a path for my tires and such, and ultimately was able to push forward on the ramp and onto the highway. i didn’t have time to properly thank him except with a wave, but i’m glad people like him (and his wife/gf) are still around in the world.

then wouldn’t you know it, i nearly got stuck at the intersection a mile from my place, but was able to wiggle out of that…and then…100 feet from my place in my neighborhood. there’s a low spot there, and as soon as i got to it i sank. literally, the snow was up to the bottom of my door, and a man happened to be walking his dog and stopped and helped, and then a teenager, and finally another of my neighbors. i didn’t know any of them, and thankfully they also brought shovels and helped dig my car out and finally to push (by hand) me out of the rut, down the road and into my driveway.

unbelievable that such fine, helpful people are still out there, but they are. thank you to all of you that helped me get home last night.

Merry Christmas!

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Rebecca Kerr
yeah, scottie was coming over to celebrate daedae-mas, and randomly helped some neighbor of mine out of the neighborhood….in a nice mercedes, and with him without a coat or gloves…sometimes people don’t totally suck!
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