Trivia

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When someone asks you - and they will - when the first snowstorm of 2008 happened in Virginia, tell them you remember it well. It was November 17th and into the 18th. We were a heartier lot back on 17, you'll say. Sure, school was delayed by an hour, but by-gum they went. Despite fierce north winds and temperatures so low that the snow darn-near didn't melt, we soldiered forth. Not like these days, no sir. The people of November 19th are soft. Why, they wouldn't know how to turn up a thermostadt. They don't even know to include a "D" in the word! I tell you I look at the youngsters today and I worry about the future of everything and miss the days of earlier this week when men were pretty much men and the cost of a cup of coffee got you a fine hello from a chipper barista with a smock and hat and the whole nine yards, not meters mind, yards, because that's the way we did things back then and I want to tell you because believe you me we knew what it was back in November 17 to be prepared for hard weather and we always kept a cell phone in our suv so we could call a tow truck or just order a pizza if need be by golly