nice people

i've decided why chicago is a superior city. we have good people here. it's colder than poland these days (inside joke... but seriously), and getting cars our of snow is something anybody who owns a car in the city (and the suburbs i hear) is something of a task. luckily i had the worst of it on friday right when we got all the snow. i had the worst day ever dog walking because i kept getting stuck. at one point i got stuck in a dead-end turn-around, but i had a good samaritan help push me out. unfortunately almost immediately after i parked and a snow plow came and buried my car so i spent another 15 minutes re-digging it out. but with all of the cars in need of help, there seems to be good samaritans all over the place!

chicagoans are just nice people, and we're all in it together. we know it! annie spent an hour and a half digging her car our, and some random person stopped to help. another car got stuck trying to park in front of our building, and we tried to help push him out (not successful sadly) but the stuck guy let another car literally push his car with his own car out of the spot. things like this are happening all over. i love it.

people really are friendlier here. of course there are assholes everywhere, but i stand by my city.