Snow Day!

[graphiteowl]

Well, not really! I'm really at work and having a personal dilemma. I don't want to go to practice tonight. It's not that I don't want to practice, because I do. It's not because I don't need the exercise. I definitely need it, but to be perfectly honest, I have gotten quite a bit of exercise from pushing cars in and out of parking spaces in the

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[sparkane]

I drove from Door County to Chicago in the blizzard that hit Milwaukee and Chicago back in early 2005 I think it was. It was the worst drive of my life. You couldn't see the roadsides, the lane markings, or read the signs, caked with snow. My wipers gunked up with ice and I had to get off the road near Racine to clean them off; then was stuck using an access road alongside the interstate to get back on, which had all the aforementioned problems plus was not plowed plus had no traffic to follow. I actually didn't make it to Chicago. I got off the road in Waukegan. Have I ever told you how beautiful Waukegan is? It's beautiful. Well, that one hotel parking lot and room were beautiful. I would have thought the management would put out large bottles of booze for travelers such as myself, enraptured by beauty, with hands stiff from recent prying off the steering wheel and kinks in the back from leaning toward the windshield, but maybe that's just my biased approach to hotel management.

If I were you I'd just go the hell home. :)

[graphiteowl]

That is very much a good description of my drive last night, except I didn't have nearly as far to travel and I actually made it to my destination. I am, in fact, going to go home tonight. I just want to.

[hkpuss]

I used you as an example today. I would like to share your vivid description with my boss who's been particularly condescending to everyone today, but it wouldn't effect her really. She's been belittling everyone when they complain about the snow and having to dig out.

My boss drives a van, lives in Middleton and has a garage and a plow tractor. She's telling coworkers that live in Mt. Horeb and Madison (particularly downtown & east side) that she thought the roads were fine yesterday (which means they're full of shit).

[graphiteowl]

Absolutely. Your boss is very lucky to have not had trouble yesterday. I would trade her experience for mine in an instant.