Thank you so, so much to the Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District workers who helped me dig out from my metered parking spot this morning after watching soccer.  It was such a pain in the ass to try and get out on my own, but like manna from heaven, two dudes in a DID truck saw me, parked, grabbed their shovels and shoveled away all the snow around my tires so I could get out.

Don't know what I would do without them, or without strangers, during this hellish winter.