Ahmed Shovels Like A Champion. Thanks, Man. I Owe You!

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Ahmed saved my arse today. He stopped by to pick me. We went to Verizon so he could get a cell phone charger. Then to the Home Depot to buy me another shovel.
Then to the mall. We bought new jackets together. The same kind (awe).
Then we sat for a while at Starbucks, swapping man stories.
Then it was back to my place to dig out the Black Granny.
Ahmed busted his tookis helping me today. I owe that man.

For a more detailed, and hilarious account of my morning......read below. This is THE FULL story. Try not to laugh too hard.
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That car is useless up here. Anything over five inches and it struggles, and that is considered a 'light dusting' up here. It has been stuck a few times already.
As soon as it is paid off I am getting four wheel drive.

I had two snow shovels, but left one in Warren. The second must have been forgotten in Conneaut, because I couldn't find it this morning, and after an hour of looking I came up with the bright idea of just ramming the car out of the driveway.
Seemed like the thing to do at the time.
Great idea.
To make it a bit more frustrating.....try not too laugh too hard at this: I struggle through the snow this morning to get out to the car.
It is deep in my front yard because of all the wind continuously blowing against the house.
I fell face first in the snow, because I could no longer see the little post with the house number. I tripped over it.(At least I didn't fall in yellow snow.)
Then I got up, and had to dig out the side of the car to even open the door.
The snow was higher than the doors on both sides of the car.
I looked back at the end of the driveway and noticed the snow plows put a nice mountain behind me. That was nice of them. After noticing that, I stuck my head into the car to turn it on.
I heard an odd 'humming' noise.
I pulled my head out to find out where this odd 'humming' was coming from. It turns out that I forgot to turn off the windshield wipers last night, and it was them humming away...I found out when I got closer and they finally broke the ice and flung the snow in my open mouth.
Also not yellow snow, thank God.
As I am scraping the windows and making my way to the back of the car I take note of my shoes that had already filled with snow. At that point I hear a rumbling sound and look up to see a plow fly by. And a cloud of white that knocked me on my ass.
In an odd sense of divine irony, his truck stalled at the end of the road. So me being a total badass, I fought like hell to get to him to give him at least three pieces of my mind. I made it ten feet away when the truck fired up.
His back tire chains threw more snow on me.
Yes, my mouth was open yet again. But it wasn't yellow snow.
So I make it back to the car. It had warmed up by this point.I got in and put it in reverse. It didn't move under idle at all. So I gently pressed the accelerator, and I heard the engine pick up, but no wheels moved. Once the ice broke around the wheels, the Black Granny started to struggle backwards. I couldn't make it over the mountain, so I put it in drive and struggled to the front of the driveway. I put it in reverse and floored it.
Sideways into the front yard. To a dead halt.
Ten minutes later, I still hadn't moved.
Oh well.
I tried opening my door but it wouldn't open. I rolled down the window and looked out to see that the snow was three quarters up the side of the car, and figured I might as well go out the passenger door. Well, fate would not let me go without one final insult rewarded to me for my stupidity.
I fell out of the passenger door when my shoe lace looped over the center-console shifter. With my leg stuck in the car, and my torso out, I got angry and yanked as hard as I could and landed on my stomach.
When I got up I looked down and noticed the snow was yellow.
I had fallen in probably the only yellow patch of snow on the ENTIRE block.
Great.
So I sat waiting for Ahmed, drinking my coffee while the snow continued to fall and bury my car deeper.
The odd thing of it all is that even though it is me that this happened to...I can't stop laughing. It's a pretty funny story in my opinion.