Weekly Rant

I must admit, I hate snow and ice. This winter has been absolutely horrible when it comes to snow and ice. I hate being indoors with no opportunity to be doing something outside, or the idea that I am indoors, isolated from doing something outside. I remember in Joplin a few years back we had three big snow storms right after another and each one dropped greater than ten inches of snow. I remember this because the turnpike was shut down and the hotel was booked solid. Good revenue stream, but guess what? No housekeepers or staff and I was the only one with a four wheel drive vehicle so I had to go and pick people up. I move 250 miles away to Norman, Oklahoma and the crappy weather hunts me down. But I thought that I had old man winter beat...Wreck havoc on me, they cancel school and since I work for OU now, I don't have to go to work. When this occurs, it kills me. I hate it. I become a sloth and just sleep in, eating junk food, staying up late, with NOTHING to do. Except for cleaning off my all wheel drive Chevy Equinox and mocking those who drive regular cars, stuck on the side of the road, or those that slid down a ditch. People in Oklahoma don't seem to be smart when the snow and ice come and the weatherman recommends staying off the roads, but I especially enjoy stopping and telling people that if they are stuck on the ice, they can let all the air out their tires and it will increase the square feet and get them more traction. But for those who don't know me, I am sarcastic and if i offer up any suggestions, and to be honest, dismiss them.

But lets talk more about Oklahoma drivers. We got over fourteen inches of snow the day before christmas. I decide hey, I need to run to Wal-Mart to pick up last minute dinner items and what do I see on my eight block journey? Probably a dozen cars smashed into each, a lady rear end a city bus in front of me and close to fifty cars abandoned on the highway. It looked like Armageddon out there. Almost every stuck car had the same problem with it, they weren't four wheel or all wheel drive vehicles. They were mostly little sport cars, meant for high speeds and cornering, not canvassing the prairie out here with fourteen inches of snow. I was smart. As you will see from the picture, it certainly wasn't my Ford Mustang I was cleaning off to drive in the snow. It was the vehicle that is meant for it. A car that sits up eighteen inches off the ground. And this is just one example.

Here's another fact to support my Oklahoma drivers are stupid campaign. Just this week, we had a freezing fog warning in the morning. To me, this meant the fog is freezing everything it touches so you should drive carefully.But what it really meant was, please tailgate me, flash your high beams because you want me to pull over and let you by, or you have a cool arse horn in your car and you would like for me to hear it. I personally value my life and choose to just turn up NPR (National Public Radio) and blare Stardate which comes on every weekday morning at precisely 7:00am-- and hear blah, blah, blah....a star exploded way up high and blah, blah, blah on this date some guy saw Uranus. Who cares, but I have a feeling that will be in another post. Simply put, people down here do not know who to drive and guess what happened? A 35 car pile up on an icy bridge that morning. I am glad everyone was okay, but I sincerely hope that the lead car that started the crash, didn't let all the air out of their tires because someone passing by told them so.