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Someone told me that when you come to Michigan, expect snowfall. Here are some of the things they DIDN'T tell me.

1. what falls on you are not snowflakes but bloody snowballs. It almost seems like God is having a snowball fight with earth. The flakes are big enough to cause bloody pain and they are thrown with a vengance.

2. If you own a car, it will take you 15 minutes to find our car and then 1/2 hour to clean it.
When I was in school I heard a poem, "Death the Leveler", well as far as parking lots in michigan go , it is snow the leveler. All cars from the poshest cadillacs to the meagerest nissan sentras, are covered equally and left mercilessly looking the same, so when you go hunting for your car in the parking lot, you have to wipe out license plate after license plate so that you don't end up cleaning someone else's car.
IF you manage to actually find your car, well that is when the fun REALLY starts.... u get to clean the car of snow...THAT is a task in itself and quite rightly demands that you stand out in the freezing cold with a bursh and scraper in your hand and clean the windows and the windshields.

AFTER you do that, the bloody snowfall is SO bad that if you so much as stop at a traffic light, you have to get out and clean the windshields before you can move on.

So let us assume that you manage to find AND clean your car. Now what ? you plan to drive it right ? wrong. The car drives itself in winter. You just hang on to the wheel and hope to all Gods you know that whatever you hit is not alive (when you hit it that is !!!). Skidding is the order of the day. It took me 45 minutes to make it from school to home today (A usual drive i make in 4 minutes, I know because I listen to the 7:01 to 7:05 news when I drive) .

Now what should one be doing in this weather ? Let me give you a hint... how about sleeping peacefully at home ? Well, instead I am sitting here, in front of this stupid computer typing this blog that hardly any one reads.... I need to get a life !!!!

Naveen