A real snow (shovel) job

Dear reader, rest assured that this blogger appreciates the idea that none of us think exactly the same way as another human. We all have our differences and those subtle oddities make us fun for each other to be around.

Take my wife and me for example. I am comfortable in believing that nobody in these United States had as much fun today as we did shoveling snow off our driveway. We shoveled snow off our driveway and then did the same for our neighbors who share a portion of our driveway. We took turns and then decided we need another shovel so we can shovel snow together. We’ll get another shovel this week.

“You’re having too much fun,” my wife Amy called out as I completed a particularly brilliant piece of snow removal. “It’s my turn.”

Believe it or not, we laughed all the way through the shoveling. Even though Amy should have had an advantage in experience over me due to her being born in snow country, I had the upper hand because I once held public office. You do a lot of shoveling in public office, though you don’t shovel snow.

We did this driveway work after our morning workouts at the city recreation center. We should have been tired, but we were not. A neighbor walked by and asked, for the 20^th time since we met last fall, “How do you like it here now?”

Right at that moment, we liked it here a lot.

Our shovel does not have the same magic as the one our son bought last year. He and his wife bought one to create an exit lane for their cars in their apartment complex parking lot because they did not have a garage. Guess what? The snow stopped for the remainder of the winter. We tried to get them to give us the Magic Shovel, but they refused and we finally relented and bought a non-magic shovel for our own use.

So the $14 wonder we bought today does not have the same magic, but it does have a different sort of magic. How many snow shovels can you think of that can make two fully grown adults (read here old people) laugh like idiots while using said tool during a snow storm?

Probably not too many.

 

Thanks for reading.