And On The Left . . .

I had an SUV pass me yesterday. That in itself isn’t very notable. It seems most SUV drivers feel they can do most anything with their oversized 4-wheel drive, big tired vehicles, even when the roads are slick with snow and ice. The roads yesterday were slick with snow and ice and the SUV was one of those larger ones and had big tires. I’m guessing it was also in 4-wheel drive. The notable part about it passing me was that I was at a stop sign and it passed me going sideways in the lane that is usually reserved for oncoming traffic. No one was there and the SUV managed to clear the intersection and got hung up on one of the larger snow banks across the street. It bottomed out. The snow bank was holding the SUV up and all four of the big tires were off the ground. Still spinning. The driver was going to have to dig the snow out from under the vehicle. The driver was okay but I didn’t offer to help with the shovelling. I figured that, for at least a little while, we’d all be safer on the road.

Ho Ho Humbug

There’s a radio station in town that’s been playing Christmas music since Halloween. It’s the one that plays oldies the rest of the year and it’s one of the stations I listen to a lot. But not since Halloween. There are some nice Christmas songs but there aren’t that many of them. I think it takes about an hour to go through the entire list of Christmas songs, even with commercials. The next hour they play the same songs over as performed by a different artist. They have another group lined up for the next hour and the next and they’ve been doing this since Halloween. I haven’t stayed with the station long enough to hear The Messiah as performed by Alvin and the Chipmunks but I’m sure it’s in there somewhere. I just don’t want to hear it. I want my oldies back but I have to wait until January. It’s going to be a long Holiday season.

Just so you know, and I don’t know what criteria they used, but the Number One all time Christmas song is Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer as performed by Gene Autry.

Oh Boy.