More about the trip

As stated in my previous post, we recently visited our son and his family down south, in Tennessee.  For this little excursion, Mandy stayed "at home in the suitcase."  Thus, there's not much about which to comment.  My attire was my typical everyday outfits: stirrup pants, tights, turtlenecks or polo shirts untucked, and flats.  Not to mention everyday clues to my feminine persona: long hair, nails, purse, women's winter coat, etc...just no makeup.

And my attire caused no major issues.  I was sometimes "miss-identified", particularly when out with D_I_L and wife.  They didn't mention anything after we were addressed as "ladies."  But that was probably less than half the time.  Rarely did I hear "Sir."  The rest of the time, it was simply "no gendered greeting at all."   It's nice to know that my daily attire can still cause me to be seen as female to casual observers.

While visiting with the kids, I caught a nasty sore throat and cold.  It put me substantially "out of commission" for a couple days, and is still hanging on now that we're back home, despite 2 doctor visits (one there, one here), a prescription for some non-antibiotic meds and a course of antibiotics - new ones to me.  Of course, given my "poster child status for medication side effects" I developed some, requiring a different course of antibiotics.    Hopefully things will straighten out soon...this is not fun.

We were able to get out and back home before the worst of the cold weather hit.  Incidental comment: reports are that Hell (Michigan, about an hour west of Detroit) froze over.  Again.  And during the recent cold snap and snow event, the roads here got bad again.   Two inches of snow is a lot over here on the Delmarva.

An annoying thing in Maryland is that nobody knows how to deal with snow.  The driver of an older Camaro insisted on tailgating me (so close I couldn't see his headlights) for doing 35 in a 55 zone (on icy and snow-covered main roads).    He finally passed, fishtailing as he laid on the gas when he went by.

I wonder if he even had a clue as to what would have happened if I had to slow down rapidly to avoid a collision while he was on my tail?  Probably not...but the resulting rear-end collision would have badly damaged both cars, and been his fault.  No matter - driving like he did, he probably had no insurance anyway, so mine would have had to pay off, raising my rates for the next 5 years since I would have had a claim.  And he'd have gotten off Scot-Free, to do it all again, to somebody else.

Where is Spring?  The groundhog says to expect an early spring.  We're quite ready....

Mandy