It is funny how your perspective changes as you get older. When I was a boy my mother would attempt to get me to take a nap and I would scoff and refuse to sleep. I had things to do! Of course when I grew older I began to look forward to stealing away for a nap and eventually nap time became a rare and wonderful treat.
A similar thing has happened in regard to snow days as well. During my childhood they would cancel school if the snow began falling at just the right time and if it accumulated in a large enough amount. So on an evening where a storm was forecast, you would listen carefully to the forecast, looking desperately for signs that the snow might have started already or evaluating the strength of the first falling flakes. You would then gamble on the fact that school would be cancelled and thinking positively, you would then not do your homework. The next morning you would turn on the radio and listen to the list of school closings, smiling broadly when your school’s name was amongst the lucky ones. Now as an adult you sigh and think to yourself, “Oh God, snow. I will have a much harder commute now. There will be lame shoveling, slipping and falling. Sigh.”
Ok, I would like to return to childhood please.
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Ther truth if I ever read it..straight from both perspectives.
I do remember some snowy days in Chicago jumping from footprint to footprint of the big kids trying to walk to school, kindergarten and first grade.
But I really spent all of my school life in Tucson and never had any weather related days off from school.
Didn't even know what a snow day was till I was much older and read about them.
cheers, parsnip
I agree! But I don't remember getting as many snow days as there seems to be these days. And I never remember feeling cold when I was younger. And now I really don't want to get hurt - I even gave away my rollerblades a couple of years back because I just don't want to break a wrist or something and not be able to work!
This is one time when living close to the office is not a good thing - you still have to come in while everyone else gets a snow day!
I have a rain day today: second day in a row that I can't go in. My workplace is flooded! It's never happened to me before. On the up-side I don't have to shovel.
ah, thanks.
ap, I have desert envy!
mlc, my father used to say there is never a good excuse not to go to work.
kerry, wow. Be careful flooding is pretty dangerous.
I used to be the same way. I grew up in Buffalo, so we got a LOT of snow. The winter I was 8, we had a blizzard so bad there were drifts as high as the roofs of houses. There was no school for two weeks. It was a kid's paradise. Now I just gripe about the kids and dogs tracking snow into the house.
pc, Buffalo is a fearsome place in the winter. My childhood snow suffering pales in comparison.
I have great regard for any grown-up who lives where it snows. The extra effort simply to do the most basic things. Hope there was no slipping, falling.
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