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...when I brought my wife to work. Woke up to some really nasty snow/ice covered roads this morning here in Woodbury, CT. My wife's Saturn L200 isn't all that great in the snow so I agreed to take her to work on days like this since I work out of home. She's a nanny and her commute is almost 25 miles each way to Redding, CT. So I brushed off the Aero and said let's go!
Got her to work early, and on the way back I saw not one...but about five or six SUV's stuck in the snow. Well the last one was on a really bad bend on a sharp twisty road with traffic coming around the corner and there was a lady outside of her ML series Benz looking pretty shaken up. Everyone passed her by, even the town/state road vehicles. I guess for insurance reasons, they are not supposed to stop and help...so she was told. I couldn't just leave her there, so I felt I should stop.
I asked her what happened and she said "I wasn't going too fast at all, it was the truck's fault." HAH! Anyway...I offered her a ride to a service station and asked if she needed to use my cell as her's was out of service. I thought that maybe we can get someone to pull her out. Then she said "oh my husband has a tow strap in the back, if we can flag someone down, then maybe they can help. I said "hell...let's hook it up to my car and I'll give it a shot." She said, "I didn't know Saabs had AWD"...I said "They don't, only the new 9-2x does..and that's a first!" She then laughed and said "Well if I can't get out of here with AWD, how are you going to help?" I told her it was worth a shot anyway since we're just standing there.
So I hooked the strap up to that little eye under the rear bumper of my 9-5, and to the one on her Benz. Told her that when I put my thumb up, to give it a little gas. BINGO! Right out on the first shot! She was absolutely blown away and said "I think we may have made the wrong choice in winter vehicles." I said "Winter vehicle???" And she replied "Yes...we only use this when it snows out and to haul stuff, and there's only about 3200 miles on this and it's 3 years old!" I laughed pretty hard inside at that :)
Anyway...she offered me $20.00 which I declined about 5 times, and she gave me a hug and put it in my jacket pocket anyway and told me to go get some breakfast and coffee or whatnot, that it would've been much more to have a service station come and help. I then looked at her tires which seemed really over inflated, no 'squish' whatsoever on the bottom against the road. Took out my tire gauge and checked, sure enough...almost an extra 20 psi in each tire. Brought it down to tire's specs and told her that there was way too much air in them. I said goodbye and then left to make my way home.
So I'm now sitting in my car at a light listening to some music and there was a knock on my window...it was the same lady. She said "I just had to tell you that it feels like you just put spikes on my tires...it's never been this good in the snow." I smiled and told her to be careful, you're not invincible now and have a good day.
I haven't stopped smiling since :)
I really wish my camera was with me, I would've loved to snap pictures of this sequence of events to post on here, I think it would've made for a great laugh on this board.
I just still don't understand people's "needs" for SUVs in the winter, everyone these days have this notion that it's essential for snow, and to haul around two kids. My parents did just fine with two kids in passenger cars when we were growing up, and I never remember them getting stuck in the snow either. I guess everyone has this need to be like their neighbors these days...who knows.
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