Snow Day in L.A.

Thanks to the L.A. fires I did not have to work yesterday. The city where I work was evacuated so I didn’t have to go into work, I didn’t even take a shower till noon. I made it feel just like a Saturday, I got coffee in the morning, read the paper, watched way more news coverage of “Breaking News” than I should have. I was glued to the television like a kid waiting to hear about school closures during a snowstorm.

That was always fun, it was like waiting to get a pair of handcuffs off. Going to bed knowing that it was supposed to snow a bunch while you were sleeping, getting up to see a pile of snow on the ground and running down stairs with 8 times the amount of energy you’d normally have on a regular school day because there was the chance there was no school. Plant yourself in front of the T.V. and watch as they read off the towns and schools that were closed for the day….1….by….1…by…1…it felt like an eternity and fuck me if you turned on the News as they had just alphabetically passed your town or school name, you had to wait for all of the listings to go through….again. Once they called off your town you were right out the door for the best sledding hill. The cuffs were off.

Sledding rules. It is one of those things that you always appreciate because of the rarity of being able to sled. They make skiing hills and ice rinks but you buy a sled and have to wait until the perfect day. You can’t just go sledding whenever you want to. It has to be just right. Just enough snow, just enough of an incline, not too many people on the same hill you have to go find your hill. I once used a piece of vinyl siding from a construction site to go sledding because I walked by a hill that looked perfect and I had to sled down it but, I was too far from home and it was getting dark so, I grabbed a piece of siding, sat down on it, pulled up the front and went for it. Good times.

Yesterday was my LA snow day. I sat down on my couch as if it were my new sled and started down a crappy hill.