Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:14 AM
So,
I wake up 30 minutes late this morning so Calista is going to be late to school. After we're nearly all ready to go...I can't find my glasses. Mind you that because I can't find my glasses and we're running so late I couldn't start the car early to warm up. Going outside notice that there's a nice layer of frost on the windshield. I have NO IDEA where the ice-remover is so we start the car. I figure I'll use the wiper fluid to help speed up the process, but instead it runs out about 5 seconds after I start using it ... and re-freezes to the car.
After waiting 5 more minutes it's finally visible enough to see. It's 7:24. We head out the back gate and the stupid thing won't open for me. Back and forth I try to get the freaking laser to read the card, even hopping out to see if it's covered in frost (it wasn't). Finally decide to go out the front gate which means taking one of two different routes to get there. Luckily for us, I choose the route with the school bus going 20mph in 30mph non-passable lanes.
From the front gate it's an additional mile or so to drive to where the back gate would have let out. We make it to the corner to turn on to the main street that heads to her school. It's a six lane street, with two lanes going north, two south bound lanes turning and two south bound lanes going straight. We need to turn... after sitting there a few light changes through I noticed that the turn lane lights that normally turn green before the south bound lights aren't turning at all. I guess that's why some of the cars were trying to get out of the lane. JEEESH.
We finally arrive at school at 7:49. It took 25 FREAKING minutes to get from our house to school. Any other given day it takes less than 10.