Snow alert!

Here's an article about how hopped up on panic goofballs the DC metro
area got yesterday over an impending snowstorm. Supposedly, it was
supposed to start at 1am Monday and by the late afternoon anywhere
from 4-10 in. would be on the ground. The upper range of that is a
fair bit of snow, but the lower...not so scary. Unless you're from
the frickin' South, like I am now (more on that in another post)

Anyway, schools were cancelled Sunday night, and I woke up at 8 in
anticipation of a snow day...and not a flake had fallen. The schools
were still closed, mind you, and federal agencies were on an
"unscheduled leave" policy (i.e. they weren't closed, but you could
take a vacation day without having given prior notice of intent to do
so.) Without a flake on the ground. The only flakes were the
newscasters, whom the WaPo skewers in this
piece of satire.

It did start snowing...once I got out of the car at work. The
District officially got 2.5, and parts got up to 5 inches. What gets
me is the above article is the back-and-forth bitching by the parents
and schools. The schools begged off responsibility, saying they could
only go by the forecast. Um, folks, real winter weather places
actually haul their butts out of bed at 4am and decided then. Like
you morons should be doing. The parents, meanwhile, are complaining
b/c we also had snow days last week, and they're out of ways to occupy
their kids. Oh, and that they're "eating them out of house and home."
Um, folks, turn in your children and your parenting licenses
immediately. You create life, you're responsible for it, not the
school district. Public schools are not supposed to be babysitting
your kids--no wonder they're going to hell, if this is the parental
attitude. Take "unscheduled leave" and play with your kids in the
park, or make Popsicle stick houses or play Sorry! or Chutes and
Ladders or something. Make them a grilled cheese sandwich, 3 days
worth of which is not busting your budget. Teach them to do it
themselves, if they're old enough.

Should I get to be a father, I hope like hell I never start expressing
attitudes like I read about here.