getting ready for the perfomance

I was waiting to take someone to the performance. I called to remind them and said that I wanted to leave by the half hour. They arrived 7 minutes after the half hour. I was in the store looking at cellphones. The old become new. We hurried out to the car. It was a small red car in the driveway. The driveway was icy. I suggested that my passenger (he was a young man, maybe a PM) drive as I was a slow driver and we were running late. There were lots of books and instructions that he had to take off the drivers seat. Then he drove down the snowy driveway. I guess to turn around.