Oh, the weather outside is frightful

Believe it or not, a few short days ago the temp here was 72 with a threat of tornadoes. That night, 32 and a high probability of ice and snow. Crazy! Tee-shirts to snow boots in less than a single day.

Here's the gist of it... if you have an idea that the roads are going to be iced over, you keep your ass at home. Period. A number of weathermen(women) all say that the roads are going to be iced over, stay home, don't try to drive on it, etc. etc.

My first experience with this was about 8 years ago. Ice covered by snow, cold as hell and I'm supposed to be at work at 5 a.m. Only saw two cars in the ditch pulling out of the driveway in a minivan. Yes, a minivan. Decided to wait a while, tried a little later and ended up doing a 720 in the middle of the highway heading for a ditch full of ice water at only 30 mph. 30 doesn't sound like much, but you can't run 30 mph, can't peddle 30 mph, and when you're in a car, spinning in circles to an apparent icy grave, you are doing warp speed. At that point I didn't need a seatbelt, because the driver's seat was so far up my ass I was flossing with the head rest.

About three years ago, same scenario, ice on the road. It had let up and was expected again later in the day. The wife decides to go to church and on the way home totaled out her car and put she and the kids in the emergency room with minor injuries.

So here we go again. Ice is on the ground and we think it might be clear here and there. And Brianna has pitching lessons more than an hour away. I figure this is a no-brainer, we aren't going. Then momma calls. It's expensive and already paid for. Are you kidding me? We have all looked death in the face over iced roads and we are actually going to consider driving to pitching lessons? We talked very briefly about it, and thank God, we agreed. No driving on that for pitching lessons.

So two days later, most all the roads are open, just a few patchy spots of concern. I pull up and park in the drive (which is escalated) and shut the door. The truck slides 10 feet towards the road and I, like a dumbass, jump back in the truck. What did I think I could do? Step on the brake harder? It's ice, you can't stop it, you can't put it in park and set the brake any harder. I figured out later that, had the truck made it to the highway and got hit by some dumbass redneck in Corolla making a cig run, I probably would have died when I could have just stood there and watched the truck get killed by itself.