Monday, February 14, 2011

Well, the snow last week caught everyone off gaurd. Traffic all over the city was at a virtual standstill, and the snow fell fast and furious. Even the buses couldn't get from one stop to the next. So we walked, thinking we could move faster on foot than the traffic was moving. A young man who had been on a bus that hadn't moved for 20 minutes started walking toward downtown from the Vanderbilt area and we decided to go with him. We had a little caravan of pedestrians weaving our way through traffic on foot. Our initial thought was to find a bus moving faster than we were, but after we crossed the overpass on Broadway and saw the bus he had exited still stuck in traffic, we knew we had made the better choice. We made it to the bus depot within an hour, and were at dinner near home by 6:00 p.m. Our friends in cars were still less than halfway home! I did feel a little guilty sipping on my glass of wine while they were out battling traffic...just a little.