Why do I need snow? For a variety of reasons.
- Professional football is not a warm weather sport. Players need to slide, slop, and skid in sleet and snow. College ball is OK in warm weather. Those kids are just trying to make it to the pros. But professional football is too clean and sterile without cold, wintry weather.
2. I want to wear jackets, turtle necks, scarves, and boots .
3. It’s almost Christmas. There has to be snow or at least the promise of snow on the way.
4. Snow adds an element of surprise to the day. Will the roads be salted? Are the ash trucks out yet? Will my flight be cancelled?
Will Uncle Albert arrive in time for dinner?
5. Snow adds a common denominator to life. People use it to start and maintain a conversation. And the Oldies remember when….and everyone is equal because it’s hard to work in the chit chat the price of your car, the value added tires you bought, and the expensive fur coat you gave your wife. No one can show off or establish their superiority when snow is the topic. Unless you are an asshole. Then any topic of conversation will reveal that attribute.
6. It’s fun. At least at first. Walking in it, scuffing in it, throwing snowballs, and eventually shoveling it. And when the salt truck comes around there’s a sense of excitement with the yellow lights flashing in circular waves and the grinding of the engine.
7. It adds interest to life. Imagine going to your living room window at 9 am and thinking, “Another fucking perfect day,” as you gaze a blue skies and sunshine every single day of your life. Boring. Endlessly boring. The same old thing. Not like some heavy clouds leaning down from the skies, hovering overhead, filled with the possibility of a blizzard. Now that will wake you up!!