Well, I tried writing this much earlier this morning, and then my computer crashed. Three times. I’ll try it again and hope that I can post it before this other computer I am using crashes.
I awoke this morning to Eric & Kathy, as I do most mornings, hearing Melissa talk about how backed up traffic was around Chicago. All I could think was that it wasn’t even 6:30 yet! The first snowfall of the season was to blame, besides it being too early in the morning even for the morning people. Precipitation around Chicago is not abnormal by any means. The weather does go through its ups and downs around here, but a little snow is nothing to balk at.
But people do balk at it. Every year it seems to happen like this for many Chicagoans:
- The weather man says it’s going to snow tomorrow, but not that much. No big deal.
- Some snow falls, but not that much, just like the weather man said.
- Look out the window - OMG, it snowed! I can’t believe it!
- OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
- I have to drive slow because I’ve lived in or around Chicago for years and I’ve never seen snow like this before. What am I to do?
Mind you, at this point it’s only snowed about an inch, maybe less. Yet people still decide that it’s some major surprise that it snowed, causing them to drive at no faster than 15mph when they would normally drive 55-60mph (we are the crazy drivers of Chicago, after all). When I worked in Palatine, that meant that my morning commute that was usually 20-25 minutes all of a sudden became an hour long ordeal, even without my stopping by Starbucks to pick up a grande caramel macchiato or white chocolate mocha. Seriously, I don’t understand why Chicagoans can be so — what’s the word? Lame? Annoying? Yeah — annoying this time of year. I have only been driving for about a decade, but I’ve figured out how to handle a car in the snow. Why can’t they?Anyways, that’s my snow rant for today.
The other thing that the first snowfall has brought to mind is that I don’t know where my gloves or snow brush are. If I can find one of them before I leave for work, great, but finding both would be awesome. (Since I’m now writing this after leaving for work, I can tell you that I only found my snow brush. It was in the garage. The gloves are still nowhere to be found.) The snow doesn’t look too bad when I look outside. It’s not enough for our snow plow service to come to our house, so it can’t be that bad. At least it will be warmer outside than yesterday.
Well, time to get ready for work. (I got to work a little later than anticipated this morning because of the computer crashing. If I remember to, I’ll post about how that dark cloud of technology loomed over my head this morning.)
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