April Snow Showers?!

Back in my 20's, when I worked in the creative department of a large New York ad agency, I had a boss who was a notorious terror. Each morning, my colleagues and I would walk into work on proverbial eggshells, each wondering, "Is THIS the day I'll get fired?" But a funny thing happened during that unsettling time: We (the underlings) all became very good friends, bonded together due to the stress of it all. We joked and lunched and worked our way through it. We faced the storm en masse. I think of that time in my 20's as a very happy time of my life because of that camaraderie--and the fact that each of us escaped to "The Other Side."

I was reminded of that time tonight. I was out with my family at a large event and a murmur went through the crowd: "It's snowing!" Snowing! On April 15! Just one day after a balmy spring day that hit the 83-degree mark! And after a very long, very white, very cold winter, which we thought had finally passed into the history books. Here in the northeastern United States, it was nearly impossible to go anywhere from October through March without collectively grumbling about the weather, in a bemused "Can you BELIEVE this?!" kind of way. It gave us a common cause: getting to "The Other Side." Even with our mountains of ploughed snow (which finally managed to melt these past few days), there was something vaguely amusing about the sheer craziness of this winter. And tonight we were all laughing about it, again.

Tonight was the last little giggle of winter. The punchline. The sugar dusting should be gone by tomorrow, when the temperatures start their upward climb...again.

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