The Stupidest Thing I've Ever Done

This is my sad face over the stupidest thing I've ever done.  Getting my car stuck in the mud.

While trying to find an alternate route to work (because the main road was closed) I trusted my iPhone to guide me through some back roads to the winery.  Normally this might have worked out, except that it had been raining furiously in Napa for the last several days.  I had forgotten about the recent torrential downpours because this morning was clear and sunny.  I was driving just fine until suddenly I wasn't.

After over an hour of trying to get the car unstuck ourselves, we only succeeded and getting ourselves and little blue covered in mud.  I decided to call for professional help but I was so far off the road that the tow company I called wouldn't even come out to get my car.  And so I had to abandon it in a random vineyard.  After drying my tears I considered pulling off my plates, filing off the VIN and starting my search for a new car.

But then I remembered that this is why I cannot have nice things.

The Next Day:

 By the following day, the mud had dried enough to try the rescue again.  I called in reinforcement from the vineyard manager and worker to help my dig my car out.  Juan brought his mighty truck and backed it all the way down the avenue to my car.

 Here the men look for a place to tie the rope to my car.  Yes, it takes 3 people.

Found a spot and hoped we didn't pull my car out of alignment pulling it out.

Before we start pulling, we have to dig the wheels out.  The day before the ground was soupy, over night the mud hardened and didn't want to let my car go.

Finally my car is pulled from the mud.  Fortunately for me the place I got stuck had been pruned, tied and was too wet to cultivate so I didn't interrupt any vineyard work and no one from that vineyard would be back in that area for a while.  

No one ever has to know it was me who left giant holes in the avenue.  My embarrassment stays between me, my recovery crew and the internet.

It's off to car wash for me!

-L