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Snow day?
My father arrived home precisely at 5pm every evening, coat still on, manners intact. He accepted his whiskey sour, nodded at the household, ate his supper in silence, then retired to his study to complete the Times crossword in ink, like a man who feared neither God nor incorrect clues.
Childhood weather events were not acknowledged. Snow was simply something one endured quietly, preferably indoors, and certainly without administrative emails, Zoom calls, or emotional processing.
Schools did not “close”. Children simply failed to arrive, and society carried on regardless.
He worked 5 minutes from home
My mom worked at a nursing home and my dad was a plumber. He woke me up at 4:30am to help put the chains on the truck tires, dropped me off at the neighboring dairy farm at 5am, dropped my mom at work by 5:30am, and had himself by work by 6am on “snow days”.
And for reference, no, I’m not someone in my retirement age. I’m 39.
I grew up in Michigan. We absolutely had snow days — as school children, not working adults. When the major storms hit, we knew we had a chance. We’d huddle around the TV in our jammies, waiting anxiously as the local news station rattled off school districts that were closing the following day. Seemed our district was always the last to be called, but when it was the din of ecstatic kids could blow an ear drum.
Feel like we got way more cold days than snow days. Super anticlimactic since you weren't nearly as hopeful about them.
We got snow days. We didn’t have email, we didn’t have internet, we didn’t have any type of web calls. We didn’t have laptops and we didn’t have (gasp) mobile phones. Our work was done when roads cleared enough to return to the office. Of course, it took a huge snow or ice event for a snow day to be called, roads had to be impassable, otherwise we did our best to get to the office.
I got snow days, raised in the Midwest, and I don’t recall having to make up that time by extending the school year. No idea what my parents got or didn’t, but they were kids during the Great Depression and WW II so they had bigger problems.
Sad to say… when I first started working we had snow days. Legit like nobody bothering you.
You know, I’ve literally never thought about that before, but you make a really good point. I’m sure they had to make that time back up since the work couldn’t be done from home—but I’m not totally sure. I’ll have to ask one of them!