Funny Ones

December 8, 2010

So, the weather. It's still here. Very, very cold. No snow since last Thursday, but what we've got doesn't seem to be going anywhere, anytime soon.

When it snowed last week, there were no snow plows to push it out of the way, and there were no city workers out shoveling the sidewalks. Instead, the 8-ish inches of snow has just turned into inches and inches of terrifying ice.

Here are a few shots of my street this morning. Perhaps you can't see too much because of the glare off the sheet of ice that is our road!







But the weather's made for a couple funny stories over the last few days. They made me chuckle.

The first one I can't take much credit for. All I did was hear it on the radio, probably most Irish people did as well.

Last week, during the worst of the storm, schools were all closed and the kids were all out playing in the snow. Apparently, a certain few groups of lads had the idea to hide in the bushes near intersections. When a car would come crawling up, they would jump out, get on all sides of the car, and spin it so it was facing the opposite direction, then run off! Absolute genius.

The second funny story is similar. My husband was coaching one of his teams at a match out in Tallaght (translation: the 'hood) during one of the days of snow. He had to go out to the National Basketball Arena, which has a very long driveway, lined on both sides with fields.

I know it's hard to picture the hood and all these fields, but bear with me.

Michael was driving up this road to the Arena, slowly through the snow, and teenage boys on either sides started pelting the car with snow balls.

Michael thought he'd be clever and stop the car, pretending he was going to get out and start yelling at the boys. He thought shaking his fist and stopping the car was going to scare the lads away.

But he forgot a crucial detail. He was in Tallaght, not our polite little Bayside neighborhood.

So instead of running away, the boys ran up to the car, opened all the doors, and started pelting Michael with snowballs. Ha! Well played, boys.

That's about all I have for the day. I'm cooking stew to bring to a new mom (and I suppose the dad can have some too!), baking some dinner rolls and maybe some rhubarb crumb coffee cake, and working out the kinks in my new sewing machine.

What are you all up to today? Anyone baking anything yummy?