Things That Make Me Say...WTH

School is starting two hours late today. Of course I didn't know this until I got to the kids' schools. There is no snow (we had snow yesterday...school was called for one inch of the white stuff). So they say it's starting late due to ice.

Ice?

What ice?

Well the ice on the back roads, you silly, silly people.

I live on a steap windy road. I drive windy hilly backroads all the way to the schools. There's only one patch of ice, a big one. It's been there for at least half of the past six frigging weeks. And it's not even on the lower backroads, it's where the back road meets the main road and I slide a bit every time I hit it (I go about 5 MPH now). So anyway...

Well, we gotta make sure the roads are safe for the buses.

Okay, well, I've asked several people from several areas in the county, no one else has seen any unusual icy patches either. So I don't think that the roads are any more "unsafe" than normal to begin with. BUT even if they were, do you really think that the snow flurries we're having are going to help? I mean, it's 28 degrees outside with a POSSIBLE high of 32...at 5:00 tonight (it drops back down to the 20's again by 6:00). Since the freezing point of water is 32, and we're gonna be in the twentie's all day long, how much of this dangerous ice do they think is gonna melt before school starts at 10:00 or gets out at 3:00? I'm just sayin'....

Bellsouth is doing a smashing bang-up job fixing our phone line. They've spent THREE DAYS tearing up the yard, digging around the phone pole, yanking out old line, putting in new line, so the phone will be crystal clear.

Yeah, so here's the punchline: They've been doing this at the house in Florida where my husband lives. We haven't had a landline there for over a year. Not even DSL.

Nope. No Bellsouth bill at all.

But up here I've been calling about the phone problem for 18 damn months. They can't fix the problem until it occurs while they are checking the line, even though they've heard it and know the problem exists. You see, they need to know EXACTLY where the problem is coming from so they can fix that part of the wire.

But the house in Florida has brand new wiring to take care of the problem with the phoneline...that it doesn't have.

I wonder if we can use that as a selling point for the house...