OK, it's fucking FREEZING. Yes, with a capital Z. Even in my apartment, where the heat is (sort of) on (I checked...) it's not even 60 degrees. I am dreading going to work, although getting a cab this morning should be a lot easier than it was last night when I was coming home (I ended up taking the bus) and I am also dreading that horrid moment which will arrive shortly: getting out of the shower.
One of my coldest memories was when I was probably 12 years old - maybe a little older than that; my childhood is mostly a haze of repression. I had a paper route, and one Saturday morning I went out to deliver papers in chilly, blustery, wintery Toledo, Ohio. It was the kind of morning where it was so cold that your nose started to run - but the cold froze the snot. And your fingers started to get frostbite even though you had mittens on over your gloves. Still, I felt OK in my Mighty Mac coat with my newspaper bag slung over my prepubescent shoulder.
But you can imagine my pleasure (and, actually, the emotion I feel welling up inside right now as I recall) that my father actually got into the car and drove my entire paper route until he found me (and, come to think of it, I'm not even sure he actually knew the route of the paper route - he may have just randomly driven the neighborhood until he found me) and drove me from house to house for the rest of the paper deliveries! It was, if memory serves, a lot colder that morning than it is in the City today. I think it was -17 before wind-chill...
Still, I have to tell you that when I was talking on the phone yesterday with a soon-to-be hotel guest from Phoenix, Arizona, I was actually coveting their forecast for once.
And this morning it is so cold as I am typing this that my fingers aren't even always getting the right keys. You can be sure that those chilly extremeties are not getting anywhere near another certain extremity. Too bad I never got into jerkin' off in the shower. I'm sure it's toasty warm in there...
Posted by Jon at January 16, 2004 06:49 AM | TrackBackit's 50's in denver :)
and sweetie, i haven't been at medosin.jhames.com for a while. update!
Posted by: dennis at January 16, 2004 02:02 PM