Friday, in Jersey, brought us the worst kind of snow you can get. Annoying snow. Annoying snow is snow that is just enough to make your life difficult, but not enough to allow you to stay home from work.
The morning starts with the kids checking every media source possible to find out if school is cancelled. Annoying snow does not get schools to close, no much worse, delayed opening. The wining of the kids is only out done by the lack of understanding in your boss's voice when you call and say you'll be late because of the delayed opening. Then it is out to the car. Here annoying snow is just enough that you not only have to clean off the car, but also the driveway. A little less and you could just turn up the heat, put on the wipers and off you would go. A little more and you would have all day to deal with it because you wouldn't be going to work.
The school bus finally comes, the car and driveway are clear. Now comes the worst part, your normal commute time is now doubled or even tripled. You slowly manuever down your local streets to reach the highway, which while it is bare, is completely stopped with traffic. You merge in to the crawl and finally reach work.
There you are greeted by the disgusted look of your boss, whose children are grown, and whose only care is his job. He left for work before the snow started. You think he could've at least cleared the sidewalk or made some coffee. He promptly calls a meeting to make sure you are aware he still expects 10 hours of work in the 5 hours of time you have left in the work day. Thanks for taking up 15 minutes with the meeting boss. Oh yeah, and no lunch.
Annoying snow you have ruined another day in Jerzeebaby, thanks!
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