Mar 27 2009
Why Risk It?
Yesterday was one of those days where everyone should just stay home. You know the kind I’m talking about. You turn on your local TV news and there’s a bundled up reporter on the side of the road telling you not to go out unless you have to, even though he or she is out. I went to my part-time retail job and the weather was so-so, nothing to panic about. I lived in northern Michigan and dealt with lake effect snow for four years, folks. It takes a lot to scare me. Anyway, the weather got progressively worse as the day wore on. I’m talking white-out conditions and super-icy roads. Yet people kept coming in to shop. Huh? Families, moms with kids. They weren’t there for food and essential supplies (we don’t sell those). I finally made small talk with one mom and jokingly said “what brought you out today?” “Oh, we’re just bored.” Bored? You took your kids out in this because your bored? It’s not the worst weather I’ve driven in, but it was bad. Some shoppers even popped in after being sent home from their jobs due to concern over the weather. It’s not safe enough to stay at work, but you can shop? By the time I got home all I wanted to do was snuggle under a blanket and watch TV. The last thing I would have wanted to do is bundle up four toddlers and go to the store because we were bored.The thing that bothers me the most about driving in the snow isn’t the snow itself, it’s the idiots out there who think they don’t need to slow down a bit. Why risk it?
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Likely these are the same people up to their eyeballs in debt because they can’t even say no to shopping when there’s a blizzard!
But, our economy thanks them.