Evening Diners
I went to my daughter's last Sunday for a visit. I usually spend the night when I go there because it's an hour away.
We had a great time, good conversation of the old days and cooking together. We put together a puzzle and I helped her put up her Christmas decorations.
I saw a six locomotive Union Pacific train off her balcony with one Chessie System loco that I never seen up here.
Late afternoon we watched TV. I don't watch a lot of TV but my daughter has the Premium Amazon Prime with the friends and family package. She hooked me up at my place. I get Amazon Prime for free thanks to my daughter.
As suggested by Big Daddy and confirmed by Kevin we decided to watch The Outer Limits. We watched The Sandkings episode with this mad scientist and these freaky extraterrestrial intelligent ants from Mars. Disturbing, it's a good thing we watched it in the afternoon or I would have had nightmares.
We were having such a good time I decided to stay the night even though a snowstorm was coming.
To make a long story short I drove home in the morning through the snow. It was only about two inches but usually that's the worst. At least 3- 6 inches of snow grips the outside of your tires.
It was extremely slippery. Even in my four-wheel drive I'm the same as everybody else, I have four tires touching the road. Some of these Cidiots seem to forget that in their SUVs and think they're invincible.
There's always an idiot and I saw about three of them passing me like I was standing still. Visibility was about an eighth of a mile.
I swear it was one of the idiots that passed me that caused it. I came up to the worst Highway fatalities I've ever seen. I caught the tail end of it. My foot was like a machine gun on the brakes on the glare ice. I slid a little sideways back and forth and managed to steer out of the slide twice. I stopped two foot shy of a gas tankers bumper, he was on the shoulder slightly off the road and there was no where else for me to go but the ditch with everybody else. I would have if I had to.
There were 5- 6 Semis in the ditch along with 10-12 cars. I took many deep breaths as I told myself,..... somehow you handled that well.
I'm going back to my daughter's this weekend and my other daughter is going to stop by too. I sure hope it doesn't snow this weekend
TF