snow!
well it's been a while since i've blogged...apologies. the excitement of christmas and new year obviously got the better of me, and it's taken another month for me to get over it. i don't make new year resolutions, but i am going to commit to writing here more often =)
anyway, today we've had loads of snow. being a man though, snow won't stop me getting to work. i'm hard. i can take it. so, having backed out of my parking space outside, i attempted the slight incline out of our residential parking area. i'm sure it's not usually a hill - it must have appeared there in the night. i mean, it's usually flat (isn't it?). anyway i made it...(with the help of a neighbour, but i'm sure he wasn't really pushing...).
on to our road. a few cars had bravely been there before, but more snow was falling, covering their tracks. made it to the end fork in the road. turned out and....we're stuck again. no problems, take it easy....sliding around...as i reach the top of the close i notice the main-ish road hasn't been gritted. there's a car stuck on the hill to the left. no problems, i'll go right. hehe learn from other people's mistakes and all that.
by now around 15 minutes has passed, and i could have walked three times as far. but i'm doing it. oh yes, i'm driving in the snow. so i move on, slowly, slowly, wheels spinning, no grip....and the car in front is stuck on the hill this way too. great. i've now travelled about 20 yards from the end of our road, and i'm never going to get up this hill.
i know, i'll pull in and park. yes i'll pull in to the side of the road where no cars have been and there's three inches of snow. that'll work. not. a few centimetres off the centre of the road and i'm stuck. in the middle of the road. blocking the whole double carriageway. not going anywhere. on a hill.
a hill? another hill? i know we live on the side of a hill, but why is it when the snow comes out, all the roads magic themselves into upward hills? i'm sure on a normal day it's not a hill; it's flat. then the snow comes, and the landscape miraculously transforms under the influence of magical white blossom.
half an hour longer and i've hand-dug channels from the wheels to the side of the road, and with the help of two neighbours and the contents of a roadside grit bunker, the car is now "parked" at the side of the road somewhere near the kerb. well i say 'road'; i mean relatively flat looking ground covered masses of snow. i say 'kerb'; i mean relatively flat looking ground covered in masses of snow. i say 'parked'; make your own conclusions.
4 comments:
It takes the mature, advanced driving skill of a consummate professional to block both carriageways in a slight fall of snow. And take 30 minutes to park.
I mean, I'd find it difficult to spin out a walk around the block in three foot of snow for that long.
Did I venture out today?
Ah... no.
And why not? Are there too many hills around where you are?
Loads. You can see them in the distance.
But . . . none directly in front of the car.
Not even a slight incline.
And the walk around the block?
Ah... three inches of snow and my feet would have been squelching inside my trainers, so I'm sure I made the wiser decision and just looked out of the window at everyone else.
Using their garden brooms to brush away vigorously to find out where their cars were.
Then driving down the road.
To join the nose-to-tail queue going not-very-far-not-very-fast.
Then driving back again. Mmm...
Wise move to park the car.
Wiser move to watch everyone else doing it.
gotta love the snow day. i made a snow angel in the car park but it got run over by someone on their way to, well i would say work, but i guess he was just off for a trip round the block. he's probably 'parked' there now as we type. although there really are no hills in cambridge - not even magic ones!
My train was perfectly on time this morning - slightly early in fact. I made it into the office without any problems, as did everyone else, and did a full day's work.
How boring.
Keep up the good work.
Post a Comment