Had a bit of a pre-Christmas miracle yesterday. We were driving down from northern MN to the Mpls/St. Paul area for the holidays with the families deal, and within the first half hour, ended up in the ditch. (Slid juuuuuust off the edge as I was attempting to get stopped on the shoulder because our cat, who travels with us, was starting to puke -- we usually get pulled over and throw him out the door so he can puke outside, etc, lol. Narrow shoulder, snow-filled ditch, got just a tire's width or so too far over and the steep bank took over. No way we were going to drive ourselves out, etc.)

Anyway -- swear to god, not two minutes later, who pulls over coming the other way but two guys in a big pickup hauling a big tractor on a trailer. They unloaded their tractor, chained up our truck, and had us yanked out of the ditch in about 5 minutes. \o/

We knew they weren't going to be the type to take money (and they refused when we did offer), but as fortune would have it, we had just picked up our mail on the way out of the house, and friends had sent me a big tin of cookies. So, I ripped open the package, took out the card, and paid the nice guys with all sorts of holiday sweets and cookies, which they seemed quite happy to receive.

Faith in humanity is restored a bit at times like that -- they could easily have driven on by, but they stopped to help.

So, to the two guys in their sleigh of awesomeness (truck and tractor were both red, lol) -- you are our heroes! :)