Our street is currently about 6 inches of packed ice. I have been amusing myself actually watching stupid people who were driving too quickly get themselves out of the predicaments they themselves caused. It goes a little like this:
Drive really fast on ice
Fishtail into a frozen two to three foot pile of snow.
Rev engine a lot to make sure the car really is stuck.
Continue revving engine to make the ice more slippery.
Get out of car, glare at the snow pile, glare at car.
Get back in car, continue revving engine and ice polishing.
Slap steering wheel with hands.
Get out a cellphone, call someone.
Gesticulate wildly.
The someone from the call shows up.
Both persons glare at the car, the ice, and the snowpile.
One revs the engine, one tries to push.
When this fails, the pusher gets into the second vehicle.
A low speed but forceful crash happens. THWACK!
The stuck car is now free.
The incident recurs with a revolving cast all week. Not one of the people involved seem to
realize all they needed to do to avoid this scenario was to drive slowly on ice. This is Michigan, after all, not Georgia or South Carolina where snow and ice are rare.
And yes, I am aware that the winter has been so long and boring that I have sunk to this. I could get out and help, but all the stuck people have been young and able bodied, and usually are using our street to bypass a traffic light. Very few people actually live on the street and since I live about midway down, none of these folks are simply trying to get to the next street as they wouldn't have had to turn onto the street to do that.
And so I watch them.
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