Happy Toosday!
It’s cold out, 2 degrees below freezing.
Flytrap, I have had frostbitten toes and they hurt.
My dumb ass years ago when I was irking in Baltimore. It was snowing and it was getting bad. The schools closed early, the first sign that the roads were bad. I was looking out the window watching cars slide into each other.
You almost never see that in downtown Baltimore.
I kept telling the boss they needed to close and let us leave early.
This is where i was the dumb ass because I should have just said I’m leaving, dock my pay, put it down to vacation, whatever you want, I am leaving.
After irk I am waiting for the bus, waiting and waiting and waiting.
The buses weren’t running because they were stuck in the snow. You couldn’t get a cab because they were stuck in the snow.
So I had to start walking.
Fortunately I had on tennis shoes instead of pumps, boots would have been better.
I walked and walked and walked some more. The only thing that kept me from getting cold was the four letter words coming out of my mouth, because I was calling my boss every name in the book.
I found a pay phone and was able to get a call through to my father and ask him to come get me.
Nothing was open, everything had shut down, the city had come to a grinding halt.
Finally I had gotten to South Baltimore, by then I had to pee so bad my back teeth were floating. The neighborhood bars were open but I was afraid to go in one. At that time I was doing CATW party sales and I remembered the address of a party I had done recently and went to that house.
The lady opened the door, stared at me with her mouth open and said OMG!!! Get in here!!!
I was covered in ice.
So I got to pee, thaw out a little and she gave me a big mug of tea to take with me and I was back out on my way. No way to call my father and let him know where I was because he was in the car.
This was before cell phones.
So I kept heading for home, by now the snow was halfway up my thighs. It was hard walking and now that I was out of the downtown section I was the only person out walking.
As I was coming up on the Hanover Street Bridge a carload of young men pulled up near me and started shouting for me to get in their car. Two of them opened their doors, got out and were coming towards me when I heard a horn blowing, my father was 2 cars behind them and saw what they were doing.
It had taken my father over an hour for what was normally a 20 minute drive. The main road was not moving, cars stuck everywhere so he had driven around a back way and made it through.
Then we had to go to the park and ride and try to find my white car.
Then I had to go home to the mess left by dogs who had been stuck indoors for far too long.
Horrible horrible day.
That was the day I said I would never again let an employer have a say over my health or safety ever again.
If course all the big bosses went to the nearest hotels and checked in for the night. They could afford it.
I was mad at my boss for a long long time but then I realized it was my fault for giving him that much power. I was only in my 20’s then, I still had a lot to learn about assholes and life.
