OK winger wonderland story time boys & girls.

1. Sleet stops, it's warming up, neighbor decides get out & drive, probably after seeing some truck drive down our residential road (4-wheel drive). Neighbor has new SUV push button start, 2-wheel drive, which is NOT THE SAME THING.

2. So anyway, they back out of their garage & then pull forward down their driveway. The driveway is flat, but it's also a really really long driveway that goes from the back of the house down the side of the house. This will be important later.
3. They make it down the driveway just fine, so now super confident this will go well.

They pull out on our little residential road and start driving.

Mother nature is laughing her ass off right about now.
4. I should mention the roads through our little subdivision don't have curbs or sewers. We're basically out in the country so they just slope roads so the run-off goes into a ditch at the side of the road.
5. So anyways, their SUV starts to slightly fishtail. They haven't gone far at this point. So, they stop, and the SUV, although stopped, just ever so slowly slides to the side of the road and ends up half way in the ditch & almost tipped over.
6. Neighbor gets out to head back to their house & realizes they can't open the garage door because the opener is built into the visor & the vehicle is too far away from the garage to get a signal (remember super long driveway).
7. But wait, it gets worse. Neighbor had just changed out batteries in the key fob that starts their SUV & in so doing, had removed it from their key chain which was.........you guessed it........... inside the house.
8. The same house whose front door was locked & the glass storm door also locked. Same with all windows. So, neighbor heads over to my place & we sit down to figure out how to get them back into their house w/o breaking anything.
9. We settle on removing the visor from the SUV. I scrounge around in my box of tools, find what we need, and off we trek. I fall on my ass a few times. No surprise, I'm a klutz. Anywho, the door on the SUV has basically frozen shut by now. Oh joy.
10. A few well placed kicks and fist bangs and we finally get the door open & successfully detach the visor & associated wiring & then head back over to my place to rig a battery to it. None too soon since I feel like my eyeballs are basically frozen open.
11. After thawing out a bit (yes vodka was involved) and fiddling with the wiring, we get a 9 volt battery hooked up & neighbor walks back to their place to try it out.

"It works"

Thank God because I wasn't looking forward to putting them up for the next few days.
12. Meanwhile neighbors car, which I can see from a window in my house, is utterly and completely covered with snow & sleet.

Moral of the story, when they tell you to stay home in bad weather....... stay home.

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