Excuse number two on this list seems reasonable to me
as someone who almost didn’t make it to work one day with mud season and no one to give me a push. My car looks like I’ve been 4-wheeling, with the landlords not doing much in the way of regrading and paving the parking area (they use it too).
I had my driveway catch fire not once but twice last year…
First time a tree limb took out the electrical line, and it landed in the drive and was catching the leaf mold and detritus on fire as it got bounced around by the wind.
Second time, same as the first, just a different tree, about 6 months later.
The electric company came out shortly after that and did serious tree maintenance on our road. :rolleyes:
Hasn’t happened to me, but I’ve seen trees across driveways more than once after storms with high winds in the area.
My attendence is generally impeccable. But I called in to work because I’d parked in a low spot in my yard and it rained that night. Before you know it, my car was axel-deep in mud. It took hours to get it out (until the neighbor hitched up his tractor and popped it out in 5 minutes) and when we were done I was filthy from head to toe. I got teased a little, but nothing too extreme, because I hadn’t missed a day or been late in 6 months, at least.
I’d parked in the out-of the-way spot because my own tractor was being delivered. However, it wasn’t running yet, so I couldn’t use mine to extract my car.
StG
Then there was the mud season when I got myself stuck at work. I learned that if one front wheel is spinning, the other won’t work even if it is on macadam. :smack: I had Security come look, thinking they helped with this kind of thing, and got “Ayuh, it’s stuck”.
Luckily I had a friend with a big passenger van who could come tow me.
A lifetime ago, I showed up quite deal late to my McJob. My boss was fuming…I apologized, and explained that there had been a power outage which consequently knocked out my alarm clock.
His rapier-like comeback? “What just at your house?”
Yes, boss – that’s what I said. Even though we’re a couple of miles away from my home, because it wasn’t a full-grid blackout, that means that mine was the only house that lost power.
Fortunately, there were enough other people standing around giving him a “Really? That’s the best you can come up with?” look that he just dropped the issue.