It was a rookie mistake. While driving down a hill on the Vermont side of the Thetford bridge, Jim braked at the wrong time, sending the car sliding into a snow bank. At first, Brian couldn’t open the passenger side door because it was stuck against a snow bank on the other side, so he climbed across the driver’s seat:
We got closer to that telephone pole than it appears here:
A young woman, Sophie, arrived right after our accident and called the police for us. Soon, a tow truck from Ward’s Garage in Vershire, Vt., arrived to pull the car out. (Cost: only $150.) We then drove the rest of the way back to Lyme.
Sophie invited us to join her in her heated car while we waited for the tow. It’s a small world. It turns out Sophie lives right around the corner on Market Street, where her mother owns the Monarch Family Medicine practice.
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