so it was after Steven Levon's superbowl party, now two weeks ago.  First and foremost, however, I got lost on the way to his house... and it didn't help that I was very low on gas already.  After a little street searching, however, I was able to get back on the right road and to his house in good time.  The party only housed a handful of people, and we did everything from Candyland and Sequence to Fifa Soccer and game watching (of course).  hahaha what a game it was, thank goodness the Giants won, I cannot STAND the Patriots... so it had started to snow during the game and was still snowing outside when I brushed the snow off of the car.  Me, having minimal snow driving, didn't panic because Levon's house was fairly close to mine.. yet the journey home would prove more perilous than would initially appear.

I missed the road I was supposed to turn on, and bright-brained me decided to take the road I was already on to see where it went.  Bad idea... I was going the wrong way, and realized it.  The road lines of separation were indistinguishable, and I pulled into a parking lot (next to LaSalle Bank) to turn around.  Coming out of the parking lot, I didn't know where to turn though, because the snow covered everything, so I decided to reverse and find a better way out.. bad idea.  I backed into a wall of snow that covered the driver's side of the car.  Okay, no problem, I have gas in the car - oh wait, remember how I didn't have hardly enough gas going to Steve's house?  The gas is now in the red zone and that emergency-your-almost-out-of-gas light is on.  So I sit there and pray for a miracle... after useless flooring of the vehicle in both forward and reverse, I found out that if I switch gears really quickly I can rock my way out of the snow bank... and that's what I did after much deliberation.

I escaped the parking lot and turned onto the road that I hoped would bring me home... not so, I was going towards Buffalo Grove... so I pulled a U-turn in the middle of the street... bad idea number 2.  The U-turn was made with so much perfection at first, but then the excess snow on the ground made my car slide, and I ended up sliding into the opposing snow bank, the back of my car jutting into oncoming traffic.  I put on my hazard lights and tried to back out (which was really a bad idea because then people got the impression I was stuck, yet I tried to reverse onto the street... whoops...) and after a time was successful (at both getting my car unstuck and at not getting hit!)  So I went the opposite direction and finally found Thomas Road that brought me and my car back in one piece, a thirty minute journey on what should have been five minutes of driving.

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