Go to my car around 2:30. A good 2 inches on my windshield and a bunch of snowflakes attached to my face.
Back to the office. My personal car is sitting in the lot after being at the mechanics for a few days. Covered in snow. Fantastic. Watch a bus driver struggle to wash his bus in the snow storm. Why you wash a bus in a snow storm? Stupidly brilliant or brilliantly stupid?
My coworkers and I watch the man wash his bus. Finally I ask my boss why he was washing the bus in a snow storm, and my boss replied, "I don't know. It's not an airplane." Steady snow fall continues.
Pack up my stuff at 5 and drive my car down the street to the junior high school for basketball. I can't see the road and park completely crooked because there are no reference points. Snow flakes attack my face in the 45 second walk to the door. Finish practice. Brace myself for snow storm. Wind is stronger and I'm covered in snow. Watch one of my students eat it walking down the street.
I know better. This happened last year when I tried to come home for Christmas. Steady snow fall all day and all night. The next morning I couldn't open my front door because someone built my house with front door that opens out. Stupidly brilliant or brilliantly stupid?
At 9:00 I decide I need to go outside and check. Snow is 1 inch past the door. Luckily it's fluffy and the door opens. Lots of snow in the last 3.5 hours. A few inches of powder cover my car. I decide I need to shovel the driveway now because I won't have time in the morning...or I'll be stuck in the house and I won't be able to shovel. Stupidly brilliant or brilliantly stupid?
I'm the only person out shoveling the 5 inches of snow off my driveway. I've finally beat the system! I will be the only one with a semi-shoveled driveway in the morning. I'm the only one out here! HA! Take that village! I got you this time! Stupidly brilliant or brilliantly stupid?
In that moment, a GIANT gust of wind picks up and blows my eyeballs full of snow flakes. It's suddenly white out and I decide it's time to go inside...defeated.
No one was outside because no one is STUPID enough to shovel their driveway in a blizzard! It seemed brilliant when I started. But after the snow in my eyeballs, I realized it was stupid. But I might have a head start on my shoveling tomorrow morning.
Ha ha ha! I've done that sort of thing a few times - shoveled the small part I need to shovel, only to have the plow come through later and have a pile even higher outside the garage :)
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