Maybe you have to teach the southern kids to like snow?
Tuesday, 20 January, 2009 at 9:39 AM ;)
When I worked for an area college, I subscribed to the text message delivery service that notifies employees of such important events as emergencies on campus and... school closings due to snow. It seems I never unsubscribed. So this morning at 5:59am, I was awakened by the little happy ding of my phone telling me I had a text message.
Seems a loooooooot of my friends are happy today, and not working. Conveniently timed to allow for the viewing of all the exciting inauguration coverage!
After getting up and tooling around and responding to a couple of emails, I went back to bed. Because duh! Slept hard this time. 9:20am, the phone rings. I'm pulled from the kind of deep sleep that gives me headaches - hard, hard sleep. Sis is on the phone. Little guy is in the background. He's going on and on about something. And on. Seems he's excited. What's going on? Snow, she reminds me. Oh! Snow! He must be thrilled! Maybe, maybe not...
Because I catch something in my nephew's voice that I recognize as a decidedly displeased tone. Something isn't right. What could it be?! Then I hear him: "All da' gweeen is covahhed!!!!!!" Covering all the green = NOT a good thing.
It took us a while, We Southern Girls Never Did Get Enough Snow To Make Us Happy, but I think we brought him around to our way of thinking...
I'm not sure if he remembers snow from anytime in the past. Have a suspicion it won't be so traumatic next time around. We'll teach him...
Reader Comments (3)
Speaking as a mid-Westerner, I still say this state is freaking insane when it comes to snow days. Blair left the house at 6:30 AM and the roads were CLEAR and even our front walk which was covered with a light dusting was not slippery a bit. All the delays and at home from work stuff is crap, in my opinion. I left the house at 10 AM to drive to area businsess and pass out flyers for a fundraising event. People around here better pray I never become CEO of a company because if I do, everybody's ass is getting called into work.
(And Ohio rules. Thank you.)
And this little guy's Grandma is from West Virginia and grew up with snow!
Dad
It takes more than a dusting to shut down the work force around here, too. We had a 35 car pile up on Rte 70 yesterday because of ice. Me, if I have no where to go I love the snow but our neighborhood is one of the last to see a snow plow and it doesn't help to have 4 wheel drive if it gets over 8 inches.