Welcome to Snowmageddon 2020!
Our area had the first snow of this winter yesterday and wow! You would have thought we had never seen anything like it before. Everyone kept checking out the windows, anxiously waiting to see if and when it would start. The people who work in the same building I do are part of our Home Health staff, so they weren’t excited about getting on the road if they were going to get stuck in it.
By 2:00 pm, little white flakes were falling, but nothing was sticking. It was pretty and harmless.
But by 3:30 or so, it was starting to accumulate on the grass and on cars, so the staff here was having a FIT! They were ready to go HOME!!! Keep in mind, there was nothing on the roads – but they still wanted to go!
I left work at my usual time – 5:00 pm – and had no trouble getting home. I did notice that if I tried to change lanes, the middle of the highway was slushy and slippery, but if I stayed in one lane and drove carefully, I had no problems.
When I got home, M met me in the garage and said that he had been waiting for me. I didn’t think much about it until later when we were talking about his day and established that he had been home from the gym since 1 pm. When I asked what he had done since leaving the gym, he said “waited for you to come home.”
He wasn’t kidding.
I don’t know why – because it hadn’t started snowing then – but he was so worried about me driving home that he sat at our front window, watching for me from 1 pm until I got home from work at nearly 6 pm!
When I told him that I didn’t leave work until after 5:00 and that he should have called me to check and see when I was starting for home, rather than sitting there, waiting for me, he just shrugged and went on his way.
I appreciate the concern, but there was no need for him to sit there for five hours! Now that I know how he’s thinking, I’ll be sure and call him to let him know when I’m starting home or give him an idea when I think I’ll be leaving if the forecast is for snow or ice. Of course, we probably won’t have any more the rest of this winter.
But you never know!