Jan 18, 2007 08:57
After work last night I got lost in Twinsburg, so I decided to turn around and retrace my steps. I got in the turning lane and turned at a stop light into what looked like the snow covered parking lot of a Firestone shop. As it happened, it wasn't a parking lot, it was a snow covered swamp of about two feet of cold, gloppy mud, which my car then got stuck in. It was night and no one was around (it was in the middle of nowhere by some industrial parkway), I didn't know what road I was on, or what to do. I tried to get out, but just got stuck worse. I got out of the car to put a board under my tires, and got my nice work pants muddy up to my knee. Then I got stuck in the mud and my shoes came off and I started crying. I saw a guy in a parking lot so I went and told him I was stuck and asked what I should do, and he said he didn't know and drove away. I called my dad, who found me, but we still couldn't get the car out. Luckily, the guy who owned the Firestone (which was closed by this time) was just leaving and offered to pull my car out with his truck.
I went to the nearest gas station to get a car wash because my car was filthy and I was out of windshield wiper fluid. The car wash was really oddly set up, and the only directions were to put my car in neutral, but I did that and nothing happened for a while, so I crep up a little. Suddenly, the car wash started, but it was going on in front of me,so I drove up a little more and heard this horrible grinding sound, then one of the brush things dented my car because I wasn't alligned correctly, so I panicked and just drove away. The soap and mud froze to my car and was a bitch to get off.
Then I finally got where I was trying to go, but I got lost on the way home and what should have been an 8 minute drive (according to Map Quest) took me 45.