Wow, I would have SOOOO much fun with that with my tractor, I woul even stay home from work.
Reminds me of the time when we had a big snowfall here in Toronto that blocked up the street, and nobody was going to work until the City plows got around to our street.
Everybody was out shoveling, for quite some time, and it felt like a big party, with people socializing more than they ever had before!
Every once in a while, somebody would get the area around their car cleared out from their parking spot on the street, and then make a valiant effort to drive into the snow and down the street. Invariably, they would just get stuck within a few feet of their parking spot, and then we would all rush over and push him back into his parking spot whereupon he would just give up and go back inside his house.
It was so funny because it was so obvious to me that no one was going anywhere until the streets were plowed by the city. The first guy was a BMW, and we laughed quite a bit about it after pushing it back into his spot. The second one was an Audi, an Audi Quattro. There had been these commercials on TV showing an Eskimo from the north who was teaching his son various animal tracks on the snow/ice. In the commercial, the father would lean down on one knee and show the son each track, labeling it "Polar Bear", or "Wolf", or whatever. Finally, in the last scene of the commercial, they came up to tire tracks, and the father went down on one knee, pointed to the tracks and said "Audi.", then "Quattro". It was a pretty cool commercial, but I guess our Audi Quattro friend on the street took it a bit too seriously, because, after he cleared the spot around his parking spot, and tried to drive away, he maybe got 5 feet at the most before he got stuck and we had to push him back in to his spot again. Of course he, too, gave up and was about to head back into his house, but before he did I just couldn't resist. I kneeled down on one knee, pointed to his tire tracks in the snow, and said "Audi.", then "Quattro." Definitely one of the funniest moments of the morning.
OK, so then it was time for yours truly, and of course I was fearless because we had just gotten a brand-new SUV, and I was going to show them all how great it worked. I didn't even bother to shovel my driveway out before I jumped in and tried to pull into the street. Well, I got stuck even before I got out of my driveway! But the story has a good ending, because after everybody ran over and pushed me out of my driveway I heroically drove down the street to the cheers of my friends! Of course, I couldn't leave it alone, so I turned around at the end of the street where the city had already plowed and then drove up and down the street about five or six times. OK, so I was actually trying to pack down the snow so other people could get out. And it worked too!
Glad I don't live on that street anymore. The people were fun, but shoveling was all fine and dandy until we ran out of places to put it. The lots were only 25 feet wide!
