i am hiding out.
it's 7:46am, and I'm hiding in my house, pretending not to be here.
background:
it snowed yesterday. and when i say it snowed, imean, it snowed. 37cm apparently. i think it was more than that because the snow on our lawn goes up to my waist and i'm not short.
rockstar hubby and i chatted and decided that even though we did not have the funds, we would indeed purchase a snowblower on credit (don't pay until january 09!) as the snowdump we had the week before was exhausting. (mostly on me as he was working longshift)
we also decided that we would bless others with this glorious contraption as no one, and i repeat, no one on our street had one. (actually a neighbour across the street has one but he has no heart as he never offers)
so for two days straight, rockstar hubby has done our driveway, our neighbour S's driveway and our other neighbour J's driveway and across the street at R's. i'm not bragging or anything, this is just part of the story.
S has a son. who is C. he's 32. and he's a piece of work. he has not/did not clean the leaves out of the gutter (r.s.h did) he did not shovel the driveway once for his mother. bad bad man.
this morning at 7am the plow went by. the end of my driveway is 5' high and 7' wide. i'm thrilled. even more so as r.s.h got up at 4am to do everyone's driveway, assuming the plow would have been by, by that time. no such luck. r.s.h had to go to work. he's working until 10:30 tonight for his brother and while i told him to stay at work, as he works tomorrow (and being a firefighter he can sleep there), but no, he decided he would get home at 11:30 and plow everyone's driveway, then go to work the next morning. (yes, my r.s.h is lovely i know)
at 7:05 C's father, S's ex-husband, came by in his truck and noticed the pile up intheir driveway. he thought it best to drive over it a few times with his truck to try and flatten in.
may i mention at this point that 5' high and 7' wide does not flatten?
C decided to back his car out. yes it's stuck. yes, it's now 7:52 and it's still stuck. and i know for a fact that once he is unstuck, he will drive away leaving his poor mother to fend for herself.
i was planning on using the snowblower right away as gaffer is watching rudolf and eating shortbread cookies. however...
i've decided in all of my meanness to wait until C is gone before pulling out the magic machine.
that of course i have no idea how to use.
and my heart is growing guilty as i see R and J shoveling their insane pile-up.
but not guilty enough.
you see, it's -25C out. and my son is done watching tv.
so i'm hiding.
i'm so bad.
6 comments:
You are not. There is nothing bad about what you are doing... you can't just leave J in the house and you can't take him out in -25. You have and will continue to be a blessing with your new purchase... that doesn't mean every pile every time. C is a jerk.
You're kidding me, I just converted that -25 to celcius, and it's -31!!! Oh my gosh!!!! How do you live in arctic temperatures like that????
Oh, and don't feel guilty!
Melinda, where are you from??
um...warm houses, heated cars, woodstoves, hot chocolate, fireplaces, snowshoes, full body snowsuits, snowtires...you know, the usual.
actually -25C isn't that cold. we usually get -30 to -40 sometimes. that's cold....
Hi Goalimum, we're in Australia! If we want snow we have to drive a few hours for it! The coldest we have here in winter is around -8 celcius, which is about 18 fahrenheit!
Ah, thanks Melinda. Or should I say g'day mate. Ha ha... bet you never get that one.
We lived in Alaska for 6 years... now there was cold. I arrived at the airport one cold Feb. night, got in my car, paid the lady at the parking booth, and drove home. Window wouldn't go back up after paying her... driving down the highway at -60F with the window down. Now that was cold.
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