Ice To Meet You

I was excused early from work today, but not TOO early.

See, there was a line of showers headed our way. Due to the temperature, said rain was freezing upon contact with the earth. The weathermen were talking about it all week, and now it was on its way.

So, because I work for kind people, I was allowed to leave work around 1:30, AFTER the rain started. I couldn't go home any sooner, you know, JUST IN CASE the line of precipitation on the radar suddenly disappeared, or the temperature suddenly rose 10 degrees.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to return home before the roads got too sloppy, but why are we so hesitant to cancel work? School is cancelled all the time when the weather gets bad - why should work be any different? If you're 16, it's too dangerous for you to drive to school; if you're 21, it's no big deal. You're expendable. Hop in your car and haul ass to the office; if you die or wreck your car in the process, too bad. You should have thought of that before you graduated.