[mathking]

This morning I was out throwing salt (there is ice on everything here) and one of my neighbors comes out and throws off a comment (in good nature) about how back when we were kids (he and I are in our mid 40s) they never would have gotten off school for something as minor as this weather. (His wife and I are both teachers.) He walks across the street, gets in his car, starts to drive and slides right onto the sidewalk in front of my house. Tries to back up into the street and slides back across the street onto the sidewalk in front of his house. He gingerly glides it back to a resting position on the side of the road, gets out and says something like "I guess when we were kids people were stupid."