A Georgia resident gets 3.5 inches of snow and watches neighbors hunker down while a few brave drivers risk the icy roads. He remembers building a makeshift golf course with his brother as a kid and wants to do the same with his son Grant. A random USPS telemarketing call reminds him how easy it is to forget what's happening in other people's lives.
Beautiful snowy day here in Midwest Georgia where we live. Last night we got about 3.5 inches of snow. We didn't really expect that much. We expected a little bit. My son Grant and I have come out to play around in the snow a little bit. Checking things out. We aren't driving around. There are a lot of folks who seem to think they've got to get out on the roads. I find it interesting just how many people are out gunning it like that guy right there. For the most part, it looks like everybody's being safe. As I was out here today, I just, I couldn't help but notice a couple of things. This morning earlier, there were a bunch of kids in our neighborhood out in the snow playing in it. They didn't care how cold it was. They were out playing, having a good time. Reminded me of when I was in, I guess, probably high school. My brother Scott and I, on a snow day, built a golf course going down a street in the town we lived in. I think we probably had 18 holes. I don't know, maybe, maybe not, but I think we had at least 9. We just loved to play golf. It was fun to create a new experience of a new golf course in the snow. We weren't going to let some snow get in our way of doing what we wanted to do, and I think that's probably what made me think of it was Grant and I I wanted to get out here today and see what was going on, and even though it is cold and even though it is a little snowy, a little icy on the roads, we still wanted to come out here and have a good time in it. Those kids this morning wanted to have a good time in it. Scott and I wanted to play golf. You know, when you want to do something, you're not going to let anything get in your way, not a little snow certainly. Had the opportunity to do a little work at home today. Great day today, gosh, get so much done because I don't have to do the things I usually have to do. I don't know, it probably was about noon before I realized we're the only ones. Just the people here in North Georgia probably are the only ones who are at home because we can't get out and drive around today. Businesses are closed, all the schools are closed. You kind of forget what's going on with you isn't what's going on with everybody else. Just because things are good or bad in your world doesn't mean that things are good or bad in somebody else's. This kind of made me stop and think for a moment how easily we get wrapped up in our own world. For a good long while, I kind of forgot that not everybody in the world is at home because of snow today. So if you're out and about— That is a perfect example of what I was just talking about. I just received a call from the United States Postal Service wanting to tell me about their marketing division that they have started about 4 years ago. I've never gotten a Postal Service telemarketing call. I want them to tell me what it's about and let's get on with it. Kind of interesting how you can get wrapped up in what's going on in your own world and not really realize what's going on in everybody else's.
