Saturday, March 31st, 2007...10:04 pm
Another Opportunity For Problem-Solving
Today my friend Keira and I drove up to see an awesome waterfall at Mesa Falls, Idaho.
We had a great time. We didn’t exactly see the waterfall, however. Mainly because they don’t do maintenance on the road until… who knows when, so there were drifts two-feet deep covering the roads.
I’m not sure what we didn’t notice about the road when we encountered the snow-covered areas, but something about it didn’t register in terms of the physics of it all and my car’s lack of being a Jeep or other hardy off-road type entity.
So we got stuck. Really stuck. It was fun. 
The basic challenges were:
1. Our phones didn’t have service.
2. The wheels were spinning.
3. The entire car was perched atop a pile of snow, sinking in at the wheels.
4. It was perhaps two hours before sunset.
5. We were three miles from cell phone service, and seven miles from “shelter”. (A bungalow at an RV park).
So, at our disposal, we had a windshield scraper, stick, broken road sign, metal bowl, car jack, longboard, two 3 ring binders, two coats, some trail mix, and a fairly hefty Honda Civic.
(I’m not sure how much my car weighs, but apparently, quite a bit.)
How do you suppose we got out?
6 Comments
April 1st, 2007 at 8:03 am
Here’s what I THUNK happened !
IN McGyver fashion(remember MacGyver of MacGyver tv fame-circa 1985 ?!!)
WELL(as former Pres. Reagan wood have said)
WELL,
1st you took the metal bowl out and poured trail
mix into it so that you could snack on it to give your brains new energy for ideas. But you didn’t use it all up. Then, you took the stick out and beat the friend on the head who first came up with this crazy idea for this trip this time of year. Of course that broke the stick so you threw it into the woods. Then, you both commented on how good the trailmix was, and felt ALOT of energy coming on so you both tried to push the car then one of you(the weaker one) got into the car like you were going to drive right out of that rut while the other pushed to no avail!! One of you took out the carjack so that you could do a carjacking!heheh You jacked the car up then said to each other, “NOW WHAT?!!!*%#^&^ Then one of you laid down on the longboard to think OR take a nap, since it was siesta time. The smarter one decided to throw the trailmix in the craters that was created by spinning the tires and then threw the coats down, one in each crater then ne three ring binder on each coat, put the jack down to lower the car and one of you got in to drive and the other used the broken road sign to put under the back bumper as leverage and voila, out you came ! Am I even CLOSE?!!! You then used the window scrapper to clean the frost off of each others glasses and drove off !!!
April 1st, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Tawnie– lol!
We both laughed & laughed at this. The trail mix would have been an awesome tactic, but we weren’t smart enough to think of that.
I’ll give it another day or two for guesses & then let ya know what we really did. (Or am I still up there, typing from my laptop? Hrmm…)
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:54 am
LOL Naughty, Naughty!!! You didn’t mention your laptop among the things at your disposal. That’s an AWESOME MacGyver tool too!! Come clean now; Did you girlies have any other “Junk In Your Trunk”?!!*#%&^for gawd sake lol Is the Weight of your Honda a CLUE too?!!
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:22 am
Actually, I didn’t take my computer with me. Trying to cut back, ya know?
But if I’d had that– or my old Treo– we would’ve been out of there in a matter of seconds.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:29 am
I loved Tawnie’s hypothesis! LOL! I can’t believe that’s not what really happened.
I was thinking that if you had posted it on April 1, then it might be an April Fool’s joke, and when you asked “How do you suppose we got out?”, you really meant something simple like “How did you get out of the car?” to which the answer would be, you pulled on the door handle, pushed the door open, and you stepped out.
Can’t think of any MacGyver-style solutions to your problem. I’m guessing it involved using one of your possessions to provide traction, but hopefully not your coats or trail mix — those are valuable! Now if you had a pocketknife or duct tape among your inventory, that would be a different situation altogether….
April 11th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
@HS– I know, Tawnie’s comment cracked me up.
I wish it’d been an April Fool’s! We ended up getting pulled out– here’s the details:
http://www.hundreddollarbusiness.com/2007/04/11/a-broken-road-sign-some-3-ring-binders-a-fairly-hefty-honda-civic/
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