Rant #2,586: White On White

OK, I hate the snow, I hate shoveling the snow, I hate everything having to do with the snow, but this story that you might have heard about related to the white stuff is ridiculous.
 
Somewhere in Pennsylvania, a husband and wife were shoveling the snow from their house and cleaning up their cars.
 
Instead of throwing the snow on the side like most people with a brain in their head would do, this couple threw the snow on their neighbor’s side, right in front of the neighbor’s home.
 
They did this vindictively, because from reports that I have read, they had a long-running feud with the neighbor over one thing or another, so they just exacerbated the situation by piling the snow on the neighbor’s side.
 
So what did the neighbor do about it?
 
He shot the husband and wife dead, left their bodies right in front of their house in the snow, and when the police came to see what was going on, well, he shot himself.
 
Sure, I have had beefs with my neighbors, and I always have a beef about the snow, but I really don’t think I would ever let it get to me to the extent of this episode, one that is so true that you really can’t make it up.
 
I guess the snow gets to everyone in one way or another.
 
The past storm we had dropped about 16 inches of the white stuff in our area, and we had the most snow of any community of Long Island if you want to believe the TV meteorologists.
 
In fact, they had originally predicted that we were going to get another pasting on Sunday, but they have retracted that prediction, saying that Super Bowl Sunday will just be another day in paradise for us here in the northeast.
 
And officials are telling us not to party on Super Bowl Sunday, to simply watch the game with our hands folded with our family.
 
Me, I absolutely refuse to follow that advice, because I am not going to watch the game at all, so I can have fun and frolic unlike the big game watchers.
 
I have absolutely no interest in the game, I don’t care who wins or loses, and no, I don’t have any money spent on betting on the winners of the game.
 
So I really don’t care, and I will have to find some alternative programming to get me through the day, which for Super Bowl watchers begins early in the morning and lasts late into the night.
 
What will my wife and I watch?
 
Maybe we can find a movie on Netflix or YouTube or some other streaming service, but we probably will watch another rerun of “Perry Mason” and call it a night.
 
At least we won’t have to dig through more snow earlier on Sunday, if the meteorologists are correct.
 
Heck, the only reason I even listen to what most of them say is that some of the women meteorologists that we have on New York television are really nice looking, real eye candy for the soul.
 
And the male meteorologists … some are quite good, others aren’t, and like the women, sometimes they know what they are talking about, sometimes not.
 
I just hope that they are right about this Sunday. I don’t want my “un-Super Bowl Sunday” dampened by any more snow.
 
I guess with so many people in a Super Bowl frenzy, the only thing keeping me going is that pitchers and catchers report this month for Major League Baseball’s spring training …
 
That is if that actually happens.
 
Baseball has been talking about pushing back spring training and having another shortened season, not of 60 games but of 154 games, which is, of course, entirely based on COVID-19 protocols.
 
So that might even not start on time, not because of snow in Florida and Arizona, but because we are still in a pandemic.
 
Heck, I don’t think that any of the TV meteorologists can help us out with their forecast on what is going to happen during the next few months.
 
I just hope that that forecast is a sunny one, and we can get back to what we love to do without any worries.
 
And that does not include shoveling snow, that’s for sure.