Well, I had a beautiful weekend at home. Three days off. In a row. I have no idea how that happened but it did and I loved it. I woke up today to it snowing and it was really pretty. I needed to head into town to take my niece to the eye Dr. to pick out new glasses!!! That was really fun to just sit and watch her. Stella is 9 almost 10. And has so much energy that sometimes it makes me sick. Well she picked out her glasses and then it was off to school.
The rest of the day went in a blur. Getting coffee here, reading with the girls there. Going home and trying to find a dress for my little sister. Before I knew it I needed to get home, back to CDA. Well it h ad been snowing all day and had started to turn into a wet snow about an hour before so I know that the roads were going to be wet. Wet isn't that bad. I can do wet.
Well off I go heading back home and I get stuck behind a car, well a Jeep 4x4 going 30 MPH!!!! The roads did have slush on them, but where people were driving it was clear. I was unable to pass due to heavy oncoming traffic, plust in the middle of the road there was slush and I didn't want to risk it. Fine, I was fine with this I'll just wait till the passing lane a few miles ahead.
Oh the passing lanes. I was so excited. This women (yes it was a women) would speed up to 60 miles an hour, then slow down, then speed up again. I wanted to scream. So once again I was stuck behind her going 30 MPH.
Now, don't get me wrong, if the weather is horrible I have no problem going slow to be safe. But when somebody is just lallygagging with what looked like 50 cars behind her ( I was going to say 100 but knew that would be way too many), that is not safe.
For an other 15 minutes I was behind this women, asking God to please give me patience, and if she goes up to 60 in the passing lane again to see to it that I don't have turrets (which I don't). Well God was listening to me pray, because I was give patience and I was also able to pass her.
It took me over an hour and ten minutes to get from Sandpoint to CDA tonight, which is ridiculous. People that drive that slow are just as dangerous as people that drive over the speed limit. So if you are stuck behind somebody, just pray and hope that God will give you patience. Or else it is going to be a really long drive.
I hope the Jeep wasn't me?!? =) Just kidding, I haven't been up to Sandpoint that recently. But I do tend to go slow when the roads are nasty. I think sometimes people just really get caught off guard, like on black ice. Last Friday morning, when Scot and I were on the way to the airport, we saw no fewer that 25 vehicles flipped over, smashed into guard rails, turned around, or piled into each other from the freezing rain. Ah, the joys of the season!
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