HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2014-02-05, Page 1616 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Snow day headaches
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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. Dad doesn't have a cell-
phone so he doesn't really get it.
Or maybe he's just worried he'll
be the one trying to figure out
how to dig me out. Either way,
how sweet of him to worry.
Thanks Dad.
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