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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2014-02-05, Page 1616 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, February 5, 2014 Snow day headaches CONTINUED FROM > PAGE 4 Now, thinking back to the three days last week I didn't go to work, and the threat that tomorrow (depending on when you read this) there could be more, all I can think about is how my father and I schemed how to get my car out of the four -foot -high snow drift that enveloped it over those days as well as being extra cautious for slippery ice and the danger of stepping in dog poop. "Just dig around the tires," said my Dad as watched him pile beans and corn onto his plate and eye up the sausages like he hadn't eaten in a week. When he started to douse his plate in pepper, I had the sort of longing to feel the cold air on my skin and breathe some fresh air. I think Dad was into half his beans when I started to zip up my boots and my sweater. A quick trip around the house to locate my pea coat, and I was outside trying to battle against cold and tendinitis as I dug snow from around the back of my tires in naive hope that my muscle would be able to free my tires enough to just back out. I was wrong. It wasn't long before Dad had his trusty loder out of the garage and a chain was hooked to, well, something underneath my car and I was riding in the driver's seat waiting for Dad's call to put on the brake. "Stop!" He yelled over the sound of the sputtering of the loder's engine and the whirling wind. Judging by his tone, I did ASAP. Then later he's looking over the engine with his mechanic eyes. I'm wearing my mom's winter mitts (a dollar store "bargoonie" as she called them) and holding a flashlight's beam into an open space onto my engine. My mechanic father is swearing about ice and snow being on something or other which runs the risk of the belt coming off which judging by his tone seems to be some sort of mechanic Armageddon, or maybe stepped in dog poop. I'm not sure, I didn't ask. After a few minutes, the car doctor gave a prescription to let the car warm up before I departed for Lucicnow in the morning. He ordered a 20 minute warm up, and like most fathers out there, a prescription to drive carefully. I gave him back his flashlight and departed into the house. Then I got to thinking, and I came to the realization that the snow days that seemed to settle in on me were nerve wracking days of anxiety and worry as my father, the guy who seems to think he should know every route and spent so much time on the phone tracking down the most grippy snow tires for his daughter, was worried that I'd wind up frozen to death in a snowbank because some drift or slushy spot dragged me into a ditch to meet my doom. 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