Firmly Stuck
The Smart Car is well and truly rooted for the time being. I've made several attempts at getting the bugger out of the snow drifts that seems to be magnetizing to my little car only to be met with more drifts and bitter weather that just seems to want to keep me down... so I've taken the opportunity to get a little more exercise and do my usual trips to town or the store on foot. Not fun when the temperature is down at -15 and the snow depths are bordering on impassable. Actually, this is a bit of a fib, the snow plough's do a great job of shifting the snow but it's a never ending battle. I'll be glad when the warmer weather sets in...
2010 … another good year … [cont.]
I left it a day before heading back out to try and get the car shifted. I wish I hadn't. Another blizzard over night and now the car is pretty much the same as it was the other day.
I gave a bigger bash at getting it out and discovered to my dismay that I have a parking ticket! In my own car park! Where I pay rent!
I manage to get the car moved about 2 feet before the summer tyres decide to stop playing. It's at this point that my fatigue, back and motivation dissipates and I head inside for a cuppa and to write a stinking email to the car park warden....
2010 … another good year …
My relief at getting back home after a dismal Christmas was extremely short lived. Firstly, I arrived back to a car under about 5 feet of snow - which was made worse by the snow plough driver who decided the back of my car was the best place to pile the snow he'd been moving. I don't own a snow shovel, so I had to make do with my hands and various implements that became handy - like milk cartons.
My first attempt at getting the car out was a bit pathetic really. I managed to clear the sides, get in the car and get it started and sat there for a few minutes trying to regain the feeling in my fingers. After a while I began to get a bit woozy and discovered that I was sitting in a car quickly filling with exhaust fumes. Upon investigation I found that as I had cleared the sides of the car and not the back, I had created a little hollow in which the car was sitting, no air was being let out from under the car, including the exhaust emissions which had little else choice but to rise up into the car itself.
After sorting that out I was pretty knackered and my back had pretty much given up on me, so I decided to take a short break ...
