I was forced onto the road because of a quick but important errand and it was quite the drive. My car got stuck in a snowbank (created by plow trucks that had just gone by) in the middle of an intersection. Long story short, I thought I could make it over the snowbank because it didn’t seem that high – at the time, I was about a meter away from it and without a lot of time and space to react, it seemed like the better choice was to try and drive over it than switch to another lane with all these slipping and sliding cars. Call it bad judgement but it happened. So next thing you know, I’m completely stuck in it and have caused a bottleneck at the intersection. Then came all the angry and honking cars from all directions – nothing makes me panic more than angry drivers (lol). I had no idea what to do. I got out of my car and examined the snowbank to see if I could somehow diffuse it and also to appear helpless so that maybe a good samaritan would come around and help me out of this mess. No luck. I sat in my car for bit thinking of what to do, when suddenly a fire truck pulled up beside me and 4 firemen jumped out, ran to the back of my car, shouted “step on the gas!”, pushed the vehicle over the snowbank, and shouted again, “have a great day!”. And there I was, over the snowbank and completely rescued by firemen… from snow. I thought it was amazing.
I captured this bird from my balcony this morning. Quote by Frida Kahlo. She’s fabulous.
