Banarenth

I never got busted for passing notes....but I did beat Super Mario Land on my gameboy in 1st period Math class. n_n

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Associate Chaplain

I will try to be realistic. When I went to school if we were to get over 1 foot there was a strong chance school would be canceled the next day. Now if there is a dusting the possibilities of an early out and/or there will be no school the following day is great. What is so different about this? Well I lived in western PA then and now I live in southeastern Virginia where snow is not an every Winter day possibility and snow removal equipment is not as plentyful.

Whirlwind

Yesterday, there was a dusting.

They canceled school for yesterday AND today!

Back in my day, we never knew if they were going to cancel until we were standing at the bus stop, he he he

...then I heard on the news this morning, they're tacking on an extra day of school for every snow day this year! LOL

Good. My concern is that kids don't spend enough time in school these days. It seems like every month, they get at least two days off for some reason or another.

In my day, days off were rare and far between.

BreathOfGod

You are right about location being a key player in these things. I live down in Texas, and around here if it gets cold enough and enough precipitation to generate ice (yes, ice, we rarely ever have snow, but we do get ice), then everything shuts down. The roads freeze up something terrible and there are more car accidents than people can imagine. The roads/ bridges are just not built for cold weather and so they will become sheets of ice. I am sure that the drivers down here don't help matters. I will see them speeding down the road, while I am crawling along at a snails pace, being careful on bridges..... and several minutes later I will pass them as they have spun out and hit another vehicle or the concrete medium. I just stay as far away from then as possible and pray that they don't spin out while they are speeding past me.

Whirlwind

Book - people out here in the boonies were on the news the other night talking about "city folk".

They come out to the country on the weekend and they have crashes, they said. It makes a lot of people nervous, they said, to be around city people who are out driving in the country because they don't know how to drive in the snow!

A while back, I was coming home from Portland (the city). These enormous SUVs driven by city people were zooming past me. There was snow on the road, so I kept my caddy to about 5 miles under the speed limit.

Yup. Eventually, I passed one of those SUVs in the ditch.

I can't drive in the city. Going 55 in a 35mph speed zone with one car on my front bumper and one on my back bumper on a single lane of blacktop the width of a winding walking path makes me go crazy! I get so nervous.

But I can make my car slide in the snow to point me in the direction that I want to go, he he he

BreathOfGod

Whirlwind, every time we drive into the city it scares me to death. I know exactly what you are talking about with those city drivers!!!! Sometimes I find it difficult to believe that I was once one of them for a short few years in my life. They race around, stopping for nothing, cutting people off, following too closely, etc. My husband and I moved near a big city a little over 3 years ago because he needed a job. We have stayed living in neighboring towns about 20 miles out from the outer rim of the city. After moving back, our second year here we were in a total of 4 accidents (and several near misses) -- none of them our fault! That was when I developed this fear of city drivers. These accidents were things like: once we were in a wagon train of cars going 20 mph down a main street in the middle of town, when a driver coming the other direction decided he was hungry and wanted BBQ on our side of the road, so he made a left turn in front of us and of course we t-boned his car. Or another time we were driving past wal-mart on the road, and some idiot decided not to stop as he was exiting the parking lot, and he plowed right into the side of our car, and then took off. How could he not see us when we were right in front of him?!?! I don't trust anyone's driving around here. There was a case on the news the other night where a man was convicted because he bent over while driving to pick something up, and he ran over a woman pushing a stroller, killing the woman..... and he took off and went home not even realizing he had hit a person.

Whirlwind

Whenever I'm riding with someone and the police pull up behind us, they're like: "Oh no! The cops!" and they drive so carefully.

Whenever I'm driving and a cop pulls up behind me, I'm thinking to myself..."Oh, thank God!" Because then I know everybody around me is going to be driving carefully. Believe me, I drive like a grampa on sleeping pills. I go the speed limit, I stay in my own lane, I consider it a danger to drive and talk on the cell phone or text at the same time, I don't read the newspaper when I'm driving, there's a rule in my car that there's no arguments while the car is moving, and all passengers are co-pilots that have to help watch traffic.

Once in the city, this muddy pickup tore around me, got in front of me, and then slammed on his brakes!

...and then what does the driver of this vehicle do? He sticks his hand out the window and gives me the Hawaiin Good Luck Sign! Like I had just done something wrong.

I just wonder what I did to make him so angry?

Boanerges

Some of these guys have no sense of humor and they way they drive no common sense either. If you are in that much hurry take a plane, ten more minutes of driving beats a trip to the hospital or morgue.

truechristian

Imo, pretty much EVERYTHING wrong with society can be blamed on liberals.

Jax

My first experience of driving in America, was when I went to Charlotte NC with some friends,
we got lost in an electrical storm, and ended up driving 'downtown'.
My friend who was driving (thank God it wasnt me) was driving in the fast lane at about 20 mph and lighting bolts were almost hitting the road in front of us,
I truly thank God we survived and found our way back to our hotel, it really was a miracle!