happy hollidays
Happy Holidays editors note: I wrote this blog a few years ago as a yahoo ( since discontinued ) blog. this is the first time I have re-posted. it is a true story. It was the day after the ice storm. a couple inches of ice with four inches of snow on top. since i was suffering from cabin fever and i like to keep my winter driving skills up i decided to go to the bank. where we live many able bodied folks go touring in the weather so we can clear roads of fallen trees etc. as well as rescue too. having a AWD van makes it easy . i have it outfitted to haul my dogs with us everywhere. so i pull into the bank parking lot and come to a ice crunching stop. my wife gets out and goes into the bank. i shut the engine off and wait. the dogs start barking but i ignore it because they usually bark at the dogs across the street. when she comes out of the bank i crank up so the vans warm when she gets in. suddenly she starts waving frantically and giving the cutthroat sign which is the sign for