Driving home from work yesterday, I saw this lot that was being leveled to make way for a new building, and I thought that it might make a good place to do a few donuts...

I got stuck.

It was really, really slippery mud, all the way past the centercaps on the wheels. No way I could think of to get it out on my own. I tried putting handfuls of gravel behind the tire and backing out, but that didn't work.

I walked up to the Waffle House to make a phone call and saw a guy with a Toyota 4X4. I asked him if he'd pull me out, that I had tow straps and was willing to pay, and you know what he told me?

"I don't pull things with my truck."

Jackass. You've got a 4X4...

I ended up getting lucky when a college guy driving a Jeep drove by and offered to help. He got me out sith no problems and I gave him $30.

My question is this:
Had that nice fella not come along, what could I have done to get myself out, just using what's around me?