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Mike Pirtle: Top 10 reasons we all HATE winter



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By: MIKE PIRTLE, Post Publisher
Posted: Sunday, February 7, 2010 6:47 am
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Running my daily news sources Friday morning, I discovered it’s not just us:

WASHINGTON — Shoppers jammed aisles and emptied stores of milk, bread and shovels ahead of a monster snow storm bearing down Friday …

Still, the winter that would never leave continues to wear on us. So, here’s a Murfreesboro Post Top 10 of why this cold and exceedingly wet winter should go away.

1. Gopherwood is hard to find so we can’t build arks.

2. Did you see your heating bill this month?

3. People are getting really cranky and don’t argue with me on this or I will slap you into next week.

4. Our cars are just nasty. Worse when we accidentally brush against them in parking lots, our coats grab some of that nasty, forcing us to take them to the cleaners where the cost of dry cleaning large winter garment is significant.

5. Tennessee is running out of salt. And, hey, we historically have more snow in March than December.

6. Most of us are down to one glove by now, having lost the other sometime as we scurry in and out of the cold and wet.

7. On the odd and infrequent day when the sun does pop out, people get lost outside in parking lots as they wander around aimlessly glazing longingly at the sky. Plus, vision problems result from starting at the sun or trying to adjust to the darker conditions once finally back inside.

8. Most of us have someone else’s umbrella by now.

9. You can’t even escape these conditions. Last weekend’s big snow/ice storm shut down Nashville’s airport to some extent, but more importantly closed destinations all over. This weekend snow elsewhere was killing flights to the East Coast.

10. A trench foot epidemic is likely due to wet feet from sloshing through parking lots.

11. Cold, wet, bored, light-deprivation depressed. What are the chances those factors lead to overeating? Undoubtedly, we have a gene that tells our bodies after so much cold weather we must add a fat layer for survival and immediately proceeds to do so.

Oh, long-range forecast for Murfreesboro: Two days of rain/snow to start the week with a high for the seven-day period of 46.

Enjoy.
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By: Mommypaparazzi on 2/24/10
haha -It seems like winter has been so LONG this year! I can't wait for spring.


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