Unexpected Sliding
[This happened earlier tonight, on 28 December 2014. Try not to faint.]
We attended a dinner party earlier this evening. When we left the party, we found, much to our surprise, that our car had slid, yes, SLID, almost all the way onto an adjacent car.
Yes, we’d parked it on a slight sideways incline, sans studded tires, on top of a thick sheet of bumpy ice. Little did we suspect that the wind and ice and gravity would conspire to push the car until it hit actual ground, which thankfully coincided with the side-mirror all but touching (maybe touching?) the other car.
Our hosts helped us track the owner of the other car down, and he successfully managed to back his car out of the tight spot, veeeeery sloooooowly, without incident. Phew! (4 images total)
Manly men checking out the near-collision situation.
Seen from the front.
See all that space on the near side? That’s where the car used to be!!
A better look at the ice-sheet. Maybe studded tires aren’t such a bad idea?
