Close-up with a Cornfield

I learned today that my car doesn't take kindly to 4-wheeling fun. There we were, Theo and Ben and I, tooling along and singing our song, when we suddenly found ourselves sitting smack dab in the middle of a frozen cornfield! Seems that despite the beautiful, sunny, warm day, there were still some very slippery patches out in the country. And a nasty wind whipping across those big wide open cornfields. After a group "phew!" that the car was still on its tires and not on its roof, we tried to drive and realized that we were quite stuck. I tried pushing the car with my huge muscles and Theo "driving" (thrill of his life!). Needless to say, we didn't budge.

I wish I had a photo to show you how silly a lone VW looks sitting in the middle of a cornfield.

Two tow-truck companies said it would be hours before they could get to us because there were so many cars in cornfields at that particular moment (???). I called work, and they sent two strapping guys and a truck with a chain, which got us halfway out of the cornfield before getting stuck, too. As we all waited for truck #2 to arrive, Theo and Ben got to really know what a cornfield is all about - bumps, grooves, and stalks sticking up everywhere. They ran around collecting stalks (or "bamboo" as my city kids called them), until we were finally pulled back onto concrete. Hooray!