My wife drove to work at her clinic yesterday. The roads had been plowed (we both live and work in the Bronx) but although the main roads were clear the side streets had snow on them partly because people would shovel snow back into the plowed streets! As she was looking for a place to park, the two wheel drive car in front of her got stuck on ice. (My wife and I both drive all wheel drive Subarus.) And then, to make matters worse, a Sanitation Dept. truck with a plow pulled up behind both of them.
My wife got out of her car and discovered that the driver of the car in front of her was the other physician at the clinic, another frum woman! The Sanitation Dept. driver got out of his truck and the two of them helped my wife’s colleague get un-stuck. It took the combination of the Sanitation driver banging on the ice with a tire iron to break it up and my wife wielding a snow shovel and walking her colleague through the process of rocking her vehicle from first to reverse and back. That no doubt made the Sanitation driver late for his plowing route but as a result the clinic was able to open and see all its patients!
May we all learn to help one another.