Chuckler’s Musings

Well, “accident” might be overstating it.

Today in Iowa, I came off the road when the road suddenly turned to ice.

I’m fine, and so is the car, but it’s about 5 metres off the road, up to it’s proverbial eyeballs in snow. I called Hertz, who couldn’t really help since I had no idea where I was in terms of roadmarkers, so they told me to call the police, and call them back. I called the police, and pretty soon a state trooper was on the scene.

He says: “Are you alone sir?” to which I reply “yes”.
He then says: “Please lock your vehicle and come with me.” and I’m thinking “oh battleships …”

I get in his car and he says “It’s too dangerous to get your vehicle out right now. I’m taking you to a motel and you can get it out in the morning. ”

I’m like: whoa, ok.

So he drops me at a local motel, where I am now, and I call Hertz. They say “Ok we’ll pick you up and tow it out tomorrow morning. Since the car came off a maintained road, there’s no charge for the towing, but you’ve got mega insurance anyway, so that doesn’t matter.”

And here I am. Waiting until tomorrow, when hopefully the roads are better.