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Whoa…What the….

Black Ice
So, I wake up this morning, shower, and head out to get me a coffee and something to eat and, if I feel adventurous, do a little shopping. I get about a mile from the house and stop at a stoplight. Green…go…whoa…I’m all over the place. Let off the gas…there we go. I’ll just turn into this Albertson’s parking lot…wait!...I’m not turning…

So, I slide into the parking lot and down the hill into a parking space. “Wow! I must have hit a patch of black ice.” I head to another exit (away from the “patch” of black ice) and…whoa! “Another patch?” I stop in a parking space, open my door and almost fall on my a**. The whole parking lot is invisibly iced over. I head to the exit…wait…car coming…OK…no…that one might be too close too (I’m afraid to get near anything moving). I pull out into the street…s..l..o..w..l..y…cross the intersection, slide into the Starbucks/Safeway parking lot. I park the car…darn!...forgot to stop at the bank. I skate across the icy parking lot to the bank and back. I go into Starbucks for a coffee…and a deep breath.

I’m thinking….”no way I’m going shopping anytime soon!”

Quote of the Day:
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner

posted by Sam @ 3:26 PM