The trouble with winter is, well, there’s a long list of
things, but number one is, it’s cold!
When I was sixteen, and still living with my parents, we
lived in a small town in eastern Oregon. Winters get pretty cold in this town
and this particular year was no exception. Well, I take that back, this was an
exceptionally cold year.
It was the week after Christmas and I had gone to work overnight,
cleaning the floors at a local grocery store. The temperature was already well
below zero when we started the job but by the time we were done, about four in
the morning, the thermometer had dropped to -42 degrees. If you’ve never
experienced that, or even if you have, that is cold.
Being young, it wasn’t as traumatic as it would be now, but
it was still cold. Too cold. I decided that perhaps I should move. Maybe go
someplace new, someplace warmer. I wasn’t really serious because I did like the
town. It just happened to be cold at the time.
Well, little did I know that my dad was already thinking of
moving. The following winter found us in Wisconsin. Yeah, not exactly a place
known for its moderate weather temperatures and tropical climate. It was like
going from the frying pan right into the fire—in an antithesis sort of way!
Everyone told me it got cold there but being that the year
before I had seen -42, I wasn’t too worried. Then, winter came, specifically,
the week after Christmas. I was “privileged” to experience the bone-chilling
temps of Wisconsin with the thermometer bottoming out at... -42, again. A lot
of good that move did!
Since then, I have moved again. Haven’t seen anything close
to -42 in quite a few years. It barely gets below zero here. Except, I’m older
now. And at this age, zero feels a lot like -42. It’s cold! And that is the
trouble with winter. ~
Bruce
A. Borders is the author of more than a dozen books, including: Inside Room 913, Over My Dead Body, The Journey,
Miscarriage Of Justice, and The Wynn Garrett
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Bruce
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