Weather Wimps!

[_Sam Harris]

We got three freakin' inches of snow (if that much), and the whole DMV shuts down. I wrote on my Facebook page today that I was "thinking of all the folks who conveniently stayed home today", mainly my friends who are government employees, LOL. Love that liberal leave!

Obama got some flak from folks in this area the last time it sprinkled, because he spoke about his daughters never having had a snow day. He called us "weather wimps", If I recall correctly. AT least that's what they were saying on the radio. What I saw on TV didn't have him saying that.

Well, we are weather wimps. I blogged on that the day after Obama supposedly told the truth about us. DC is infantile when it comes to snow, I swear. You'd think we were in the Himalayas or something.

President Obama joked about how DC gets paralyzed during bad weather. His daughters had never missed a day of school due to snow. Some DMV residents took issue (probably those who can't drive to begin with) with what he said. Others agreed and laughed. One woman went on and on about poor cold children who didn't have coats and who had to walk to school. Um, they have those in Chicago, too.

This is what I've noticed about drivers in the DMV:
MD drivers drive fast as hell. They will run you over. I used to babysit in MD, and I swear those folks were in a hurry to get home and fight with their spouses. Be careful driving in MD. You might lose your back bumper to the car behind you.

VA drivers act like they have Miss Daisy in the back seat. But that's just because of our State Troopers who like to sodomize VA residents with unncessary tickets.

DC drivers are used to driving in a maze of one way streets and circles. So when they get out of the District, they still drive like they don't know where they're going. I get lost in DC all the time. I tried to get to the highway from Southeast once, and ended up on Embassy Row. Those who know DC will laugh.

Not to mention the folks who drive drunk, drive without a license because they're illegal (and when they hit your ass, you'd better have more than just liability insurance...goodness, that's all I have), drive immaturely (15 with a cell in your ear is NOT cool! Any age with a cell phone in your ear is not cool!), and just shouldn't be driving at all (when you can no longer see the lines in the road, turn in your license, because slowing down won't help). Is it no wonder that the roads are a zoo when it's anything other than "partly cloudy" outside?

This area looks for a reason to stay home. Weirdest day off from school I've ever had: I wake up to a beautiful blue sky. I was living in Southern VA with my dad. He comes in and tells me there's no school. I ask why, he says, "it's too cold". WTF? Oh well, I went back to bed.

Speaking of bed, my son is snoring. He sounds JUST like his father, only much quieter. I gotta ask his pediatrician about that...

[_Sam Harris]

LMAO, we're catching on...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/200 ... es_on.html

When I lived in Germany, we used to laugh because the Colonel would shut down the schools any time it snowed more than an inch. Which meant we lost a lot of school days in the winter, but living near Wiesbaden, which was over hot springs, meant that the snow never lasted long. I once went to school with a German friend of mine, and there was at least a foot of snow outside. It was pretty cool (going to a school where they didn't speak English as the first language...that and the snow). When we got home, we went sledding. The year I left, I swear those flakes looked to be the size of golfballs.

Well, one balmy spring day I come home, and my friend is sitting on the lawn outside our apartment building. I ask her why she's home, she says, "hitzefrei". LOL, they get out when it's hot! I miss spring and summer in Germany, you could actually enjoy the weather without heatstroke.

[_Yoda]

North Carolina is the same way.

The problem with NC is that they refuse to buy proper plowing equipment. If they did, and actually salted the roads ahead of time, we wouldn't have these issues.

But do they do that? No.

At the first snow flurry, all of the schools cancel, the milk and bread disappear from the stores, and the power goes out in major areas due to poor planning for ice and snow.

Schools were out today, and they will probably be out tomorrow, too.

Lord, give me strength! LOL

[_Sam Harris]

I had to go buy baby cereal yesterday evening, went to the grocery store, and there were NO parking spaces. So I continued on to Wal-Mart, where it was business as usual, people buying all the crap they don't need. The lines were horrendous, I could barely get through the baby section, because there were so many people casually shopping. Wal-Mart around here is the one place where reality does not exist.

I get to the register, and the clerks are scanning one item per minute. I broke my check card out of frustration (luckily it's only cracked and not on the magnetic part). I finally got out of there...

Steve said there were only three people in his department today.

The snow was pretty to see, but seriously, I've walked the quarter mile from my mom's house to the bus in worse when I lived with her...no snow days for me. And no snow days for Steve, he knows he'd better make my money, LOL.

We finally have internet at home, so in between pissing around, I can look for jobs. I'm happy.

[_Sam Harris]

Man, if only I lived nearby. You could come over and we'd toast marshmallows. Little man still sleeps most of the time, and when he's not sleeping he's flirting with you, laughing, cooing...

[_Yoda]

Man, if only I lived nearby. You could come over and we'd toast marshmallows. Little man still sleeps most of the time, and when he's not sleeping he's flirting with you, laughing, cooing...

That would be awesome!

Of course, whatever state we were both in would be in serious trouble with the two of us actually together!

[_Sam Harris]

This is what little man was up to today....yes, I'm bored...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co-zYcIILUI

[_Yoda]

This is what little man was up to today....yes, I'm bored...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co-zYcIILUI

Awww....he's precious!