CLIMATE CHANGE HUMOR

Climate Change is Destroying My Winter Driving Skills

I don’t know how I can be expected to drive in this light dusting of snow

Photo by Gustavo Zambelli on Unsplash

When I was a kid, we drove 20 miles each way to school.

We almost never had “snow days” because only the weak didn’t make it to school because of the weather.

“You know how to drive a stick. Get in the truck and drive yourself to school. I’m not your chauffeur. If the truck’s not runnin’, use the brains God gave you and take the tractor.”

In elementary school, I remember almost dying because the roads were so icy that when the bus stopped at a stop sign, it started sliding backwards towards a lake in a gravel pit, just like in that movie The Sweet Hereafter.

The only extended period of time off from school due to weather that I can remember was the Blizzard of ’77, when 25-foot high drifts trapped people in their homes for a week.

And even then, I have distinct memories of driving around with my parents looking at the walls of snow next to the road.

This is why God invented pick-up trucks.

My first husband had a lifted Chevy something or other, and after huge winter…