By Friday night, Michael had been telling us for three days about the snow expected to start Saturday and continue into Sunday. Michael, 16, loves snow, not because he likes to ski or snowboard or build snowmen. The only time he goes out is to shovel our walk or work with a neighbor that plows driveways and even then he does so reluctantly.
Michael loves snow because it cancels school and there is always the remote possibility that even a Saturday/Sunday storm could dump enough snow to at least delay the opening of school on Monday. Danny, 14, pretty much feels the same way. One difference is that Danny doesn’t like to use the expected bad weather as an excuse to put off his homework. On Tuesday night at around 8 p.m. he is sitting at the kitchen table doing his Wednesday homework.
“Good boy,” I tell him. “But I don’t think you are going to have school tomorrow.”
“I’m going to have to do it anyway,” he shrugs, continuing with this work.
Their dad hates snow because it makes it harder to get to where I have to go. Unlike school, the newspaper never gets canceled or delayed so for 24 years I’ve driven through all kinds of bad weather to get back and forth to the Record-Journal. Not only do I hate snow, I like to pretend it doesn’t exist. When colleagues start talking about an expected storm or complain about the ride in and the expected ride home, I get annoyed and shut them out. It’s my admittedly selfish way of dealing with something I don’t like but can’t change.
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I am impressed with Danny's good work ethic. That skill will be valuable to him as he gets older.
It may make it easier during days of bad weather to work from home, maybe for at least part of the day until roads clear. These days, it's easy to connect to work from your home computer or by bringing your work computer home.
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