Classes are over, as of yesterday. Snow was forecasted (and what a mess that all turned out to be!). I drove to school and arrived at 12:05. At 12:30, when I walked into my first class, the students happily announced that school had just been cancelled for the rest of the day.
I made them stay five minutes so they could hear instructions for the final exam (some of them - oddly, the ones with the lowest averages) didn't even want that.
I cleaned up a few things and headed out, joining the other million or so employed people in the Boston metro who had all left work at just the same time. My 45-mile drive took SIX AND ONE HALF HOURS. Almost could've walked instead. The wipers croaked at mile 30 or so. I gotta tell ya, driving in snow with no wipers is damn hard. But I didn't hit anyone or anything, and no one hit me, so it's all good.
Happy Birthday, Dave!!
Thanks for the happy b-day greeting. Wow 6.5 hours. thats gotta suck. Hope to talk to ya this weekend
Dave
I agree. Commuting is awful. I had a similar experience when I was commuting to NYC from Long Island, only I took the LI railroad, which was on strike during the worst snowstorm we had in the year or so that I endured this commute. So instead of the train, I took a bus, which couldn't make it up a hill at one point because of the ice, and so discharged all the passengers at the bottom. We then had to wait out in the blizzard until the next bus came along (which was already overcrowded). All this in the days before cellphones, too!
Posted by: Vicky at December 17, 2007 10:38 AM