Mikey to the rescue.

     This morning I was assigned baby sitting duty for our two year old.  While in the mean time Stacie was going to take our two girls, and one of their friends to a private screening of some neat new animated movie made on HP computers.
     Well, not to far into our babysitting adventure I get a phone call from Stacie "Do you love me?" she says.  Apparently she has slid off the road and onto the median in an effort to avoid an accident that had occurred in front of her.  Then all I hear is screaming from all the little girls in the car, as another vehicle narrowly misses them.
     So I pack up the boy in my truck, scrape all the ice of the windows.  Put it in four wheel drive and head off to rescue the day.  I can tell that I'm getting close when I start hearing sirens, and seeing flashing lights, unfortunately with all the traffic backed up because of the accident on the icy road it still takes some time to get to my poor stranded girls.
     When I finally reach them, I ignore the police officer trying to wave people past, and pull off into the median in front of Stacie.  Then I back up to where I can attach a tow chain to pull Stacie out of the median.
That's when Stacie jumps out of her car, and tells me not to hook up the chain.  "I don't know if I'm stuck or not."  She says.  "I haven't tried to get out yet."
     "What?!"  If you haven't even tried to get out, then why did I bundle up our two year old, and brave the dangerous icy roads myself to come rescue her?  Well, I pull forward to give her room to try, and she drives right up on the road behind me without the slightest inclination of being stuck.  Apparently, she was scared to try to pull forward without help, in fear of getting stuck worse if she were indeed stuck.
     In the end I'm just grateful that all of my precious cargo in the vehicle were okay, with just a little bit of mental trauma to show for their morning.  Plus, I got to be the hero by coming to their rescue, without even having to do anything.  At least I was a hero, until I wrote this up and broadcast to the whole world that Stacie slid her car off the road this morning.  Now, I'm probably in the doghouse instead of being a hero.
     Unfortunately, they missed their private screening of the movie.  Looks like now I'll have to pay to take them to it when it's released in the theaters.  Of course that means Corey and I will get to go too.