What do you say to a drunken sailor?
Getting a late start on this so I'm sure it won't actually get posted until after midnight. I'll back date of course. I was so tired tonight, I didn't even get on the treadmill. I think shoveling a couple of tons of snow this week is a fair trade-off.
I had a massage scheduled for tonight and come hell or high snow, I was going. I haven't been out of the house, other than to shovel snow, since last Thursday. Feb 4th. Over a week ago. I don't go stir crazy and I haven't run out of the snow staples (Diet Pepsi, Kleenex, cat food) and I can work from home so there was no reason to go if I didn't have to. The weird thing is though, I had no concept of what the streets are like. Our driveway, plowed by the idiots with heavy equipment, is almost completely clear. The side street looks like something out of rural Minnesota. Actually, those roads probably look better. I don't think VDOT even plowed it. If they did, they forgot to put the plow to the ground.
Once I got off the rutted, snow-packed side street, the main road in the addition was surprisingly clear. Apparently, though, this was a fluke because on the way home, coming in from a different direction, the rest of the road was hit or miss. Mostly miss. The joy of driving around here after a big snow is the way they plow. It's like they put drunken sailors behind the wheel and let them have at it. They start out plowing two lanes--just enough to make drivers think there are two lanes--and then one lane, usually the right one, will narrow into the other until it disappears. Could they not just plow in a couple of straight lines? See, drunken sailors.
The trip home wasn't too bad but I was jonesing for Chipotle so that took me a different way. After making a tricky left turn (it was dark now and the melt-off was starting to freeze), I noticed a huge backhoe across two lanes of the road I was traveling. Honest got God, it looked like a transformer for a minute. Or a large, metal dinosaur. There was just enough room to get by so I raced past him before he decided to back up.
I have to think there are or will be wrecks galore in the coming days because snow has been plowed in 6ft piles at the corners. Cars can't see around to turn left or right without rolling into traffic. And then there's the joy of driving down one lane of a two lane street and then suddenly realizing a drunken sailor plowed and you've got no more road.
For the record, that burrito was amazing!
Oh, and Senator Dick Durbin is an ass.
I had a massage scheduled for tonight and come hell or high snow, I was going. I haven't been out of the house, other than to shovel snow, since last Thursday. Feb 4th. Over a week ago. I don't go stir crazy and I haven't run out of the snow staples (Diet Pepsi, Kleenex, cat food) and I can work from home so there was no reason to go if I didn't have to. The weird thing is though, I had no concept of what the streets are like. Our driveway, plowed by the idiots with heavy equipment, is almost completely clear. The side street looks like something out of rural Minnesota. Actually, those roads probably look better. I don't think VDOT even plowed it. If they did, they forgot to put the plow to the ground.
Once I got off the rutted, snow-packed side street, the main road in the addition was surprisingly clear. Apparently, though, this was a fluke because on the way home, coming in from a different direction, the rest of the road was hit or miss. Mostly miss. The joy of driving around here after a big snow is the way they plow. It's like they put drunken sailors behind the wheel and let them have at it. They start out plowing two lanes--just enough to make drivers think there are two lanes--and then one lane, usually the right one, will narrow into the other until it disappears. Could they not just plow in a couple of straight lines? See, drunken sailors.
The trip home wasn't too bad but I was jonesing for Chipotle so that took me a different way. After making a tricky left turn (it was dark now and the melt-off was starting to freeze), I noticed a huge backhoe across two lanes of the road I was traveling. Honest got God, it looked like a transformer for a minute. Or a large, metal dinosaur. There was just enough room to get by so I raced past him before he decided to back up.
I have to think there are or will be wrecks galore in the coming days because snow has been plowed in 6ft piles at the corners. Cars can't see around to turn left or right without rolling into traffic. And then there's the joy of driving down one lane of a two lane street and then suddenly realizing a drunken sailor plowed and you've got no more road.
For the record, that burrito was amazing!
Oh, and Senator Dick Durbin is an ass.