Things that happened Yesterday

It snowed/rained/sleeted here, yesterday. I know that is probably not a big deal for most of you, but for where I live, it is. We have not seen this much snow in quite a few years.
My little sister had called and called saying we should close the studio down and go home, but she tends to over react to the rain, so I did not listen to her. I wish I had, because well . . . you can imagine how surprised I was, when I finally left work, to see that the snow was actually sticking to everything, even the main roads. I wore Capri pants, a black T-Shirt and Crocks to work. Yes, I froze my ass off going home. I tried to get a few pictures of it but it was dark when I left work, and my camera is great but not that great.
I could barely walk to my car the ground was so slushy; it was kind of cool and pretty but very scary. I know I annoyed those driving behind me, when I drove 10mph all the way home, but I could not make myself go any faster. Even driving that slow, I still managed to nearly run off the road. Also, if the fear, that felt while driving in the slippery mess, had not had me so paralyzed, I probably would have thrown up all in my car, because my nerves had me shaking so bad.
My co-worker got a flat tire on his way home, because he really did run off of the road. I feel kind of bad for him, but not too bad because I am not the boss and was not the one who asked him to stay. I would have left earlier, myself, but I had a student, whose mother did not have enough sense to come and get him when the weather turned bad, in the studio that I could not leave.
You would think that considering we do not live in a state that gets any snow, that people would be more conscious of there actions. I could understand peoples nonchalance if I lived in Maine, or somewhere else where it snowed all of the time, but I do not understand it here. We are not trained to drive in this weather. We do not have vehicles that are equipped to be driven in this weather, and we should act like it, but we don’t.
I say this because not only did this child’s mother leave him at my studio until everything outside turned white, but as I was driving home I saw a Domino’s Pizza Delivery car delivering pizza. I cannot speak for other places, but here, those who work for food delivery places normally do have the best vehicles, therefore they have no business being out in such conditions. Not only do I think the person or persons who ordered the pizza was an asswhole, but the store manger of that Domino’s is an asswhole for allowing the employee to make the run and for even staying open once the weather turned bad. It wasn’t as if the weather was that a big surprise.
When I went to work that morning, all that the weather station had called for was rain, but as the day went on we were informed of the upcoming rain/snow/sleet. And like I said, I would not have been dumb enough to be out in it if I had not been responsible for another person. I guess I could have taken the poor child home myself, but I would have taken the chance of being in some kind of accident and his parents would have sued me, and I would have gone to jail for inflicting bodily harm on the mother, which is something I should have done anyways, for her leaving him like that. Yes, we did try and get in touch with her, but she chose not to be found, I guess.
Maybe it is me. Maybe I overreact to things, and everyone else is normal. Maybe last night’s storm was not as bad as I thought it was. My dad works nights, and he went out in the middle of it to go to work. If I had been my dad’s boss, I would have closed down and sent everyone home, because if anyone had died coming to work it would have weighed too heavily on my conscious. The job, the money isn’t that important, not when I am risking people’s lives.

Talisman