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Show You'll really enjoy this Lovely Snow . . .Next August By Mary Gae Evans PAROWAN - Well, I've just about had it, I think it's time some of the farmers and skiers around here got up off their knees, enough is enough! I'm so sick of pussy footing around to keep from falling down, and trying to find the -car to dig it out every morning and then slipping and sliding all over the road. I dream about summer picnics and having the car stop when you put your foot on the brake, instead of zipping on through in- tersections and over , pedestrians. I slid right through a four way stop yesterday and gave a Volkswagon driver the shock of his life. I figure I missed him by a good half inch. I've never seen to many people driving down the road sideways, or just sitting spinning at a slight incline in the road. One lady flipped a beautiful "Brodie" as the kids call them, and turned clear around in our intersection in-tersection Saturday. She sat THAT there for a long time with a look of total unbelief on her face. Then got out and walked home. I saw her husband come and pick up the car later in the day. "And fall down" more people have suffered with badly bruised backsides and terribly hurt feelings than anyone knows. A fall brings on instant desire to become invisible, and then some place to drag oneself to hid and lick ones wounds in private. There is something about seeing someone fall down that brings out the worst in all of us. We have a horrible impulse to laugh, and when you're the one sprawled out on the ground it is definetelv not funny. Some of the more dedicated snow shovelers in the town are starting to walk in a rather bent position. It has been so long since it has quit snowing long enough for them to straighten up. You clean the driveway, the snow plow fills it in, you clean it, they fill it in, etc. etc. etc., and that white stuff just keeps coming down. And so I've noticed does the thermometer. ther-mometer. I called my daughter this morning to see if she wanted to ride to Cedar with me in spite of the cold, and she said sure Mom we'd love to. After all it's warmed up outside. The thermometer is up to 2 below zero and the kids will enjoy the fresh air. |