Remember when you were a kid, watching the snowflakes fall during the evening and praying to the Big Man above for them to cancel school? Though it took a true blizzard for us to get a snow day in Cleveland (at least for the non-parochial schools…they seemed to have a day off every week for one obscure saint’s birthday or other), we still awoke, flipped on the news, and watched the scrolling ticker, desperate to hear that our city or county’s school had been cancelled.
Welcome to my life today.
Yes, snow has hit Atlanta, though I must say, it’s a pretty paltry amount. They’re calling it “Winter Storm 2004”, complete with the ominous music that should instill the fear of God & Mother Nature into each one of us Southerners, and nearly every school system is closed. While I do have about an inch of wet snow on my deck and skidded into traffic while trying to get to work, it’s nothing like the snows I remember from my childhood. Into high school, we embraced the snow, taking our cars to the high school parking lot and intentionally doing donuts while our friends cheered us on. “More! More!” we cried, as the car would fishtail here and there and we felt like a NASCAR driver-extraordinaire.
And here I am, smack dab in the midst of a 1″-caused snowday. 1/2 of our office has chosen to work from home, myself included, since my beloved Saab-alamobile isn’t what you’d call a “Snow Car.” So with my cats batting at the cursor on the screen as I manipulate yet another Excel spreadsheet, I’ve only got one thing to say:
Nyah Nyah, I’ve got on my PJ’s and you don’t!!
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Didn’t anyone ever tell you that it was unattractive to gloat?
I am sitting here in my office taking calls from the stores that are closed in North and South Carolina. So far I have over 20 stores that have closed early or aren’t even opening at all, and all I can think of is
‘why didn’t I move to Charlotte?”
I am in my PJ’s too, but I am unemployed…..
I am at home in my PJ’s too, but that’s cause I am unemployed….
I would gladly trade our weather for yours… we’re a pretty balmy 34 degrees right now… ick… the more snow the better! Enjoy!! 🙂
As another Ohio transplanted to the South, I was amused by it all.
Of course, it did not snow here in Huntsville. I have decided that I am the anti-snow. Because I now live up on a mountain here in town, it won’t snow here. When I didn’t live up there, though, it would snow and close all the time.
Not the least bit bitter.
Well I’m glad I’m at work today. Why? Because my freakin’ power went out last night at about 10:30 because of the ‘storm’, and it’s still not back on. At this rate, I may just have to spend the night here.
Snow…What snow…..what’s a snow day…yup, I live in a tropical place….that place is Northwestern Illinois. We never get any good snow.
However, I can relate to your childhood/teenage memories ( I got some real good stories involving snow, cars, beer, etc. ), as I grew up in Wisconsin.