colorado
July 2008 
And the blame goes to -
Posted on May 15th, 2008
by 
Angel
Angel
Do you have something or someone who pushes your buttons and can rile you up faster than an exploding pop can?
A local TV weatherman is my husband's exploding pop can. Mike Nelson is a personable, likeable weatherman who, it so happens, has predicted the Colorado weather for many years, sometimes right on and sometimes, not so much.
My husband, Kip, hates driving in the snow and, well, we live in Colorado so there's the first problem. The second problem is poor Mike Nelson warns us when it might snow and when it might be a dreaded "upslope" storm which most often means 1 to 2 feet of snow in the Front Range.
Everytime Mike Nelson mentions even the possibilty of snow, Kip, normally easy-going and quiet, starts railing at the TV and bullying the poor weatherman. It's as if the poor guy actually creates these storms just to aggravate my husband and therefore deserves all the blame for the weather. Now, this makes no sense to me at all.
But then today another storm was predicted and I had an "a ha" moment. We all tend, at times, to blame someone else for something we feel we have no control over. It makes no sense, but it does make us feel worlds better. So, now I understand my husband's need to blame someone for the weather he hates so profoundly.
When it comes to blame, however, I am much more pragmatic and logical than my husband. I just blame the Republicans! And that is my exploding pop can!
A local TV weatherman is my husband's exploding pop can. Mike Nelson is a personable, likeable weatherman who, it so happens, has predicted the Colorado weather for many years, sometimes right on and sometimes, not so much.
My husband, Kip, hates driving in the snow and, well, we live in Colorado so there's the first problem. The second problem is poor Mike Nelson warns us when it might snow and when it might be a dreaded "upslope" storm which most often means 1 to 2 feet of snow in the Front Range.
Everytime Mike Nelson mentions even the possibilty of snow, Kip, normally easy-going and quiet, starts railing at the TV and bullying the poor weatherman. It's as if the poor guy actually creates these storms just to aggravate my husband and therefore deserves all the blame for the weather. Now, this makes no sense to me at all.
But then today another storm was predicted and I had an "a ha" moment. We all tend, at times, to blame someone else for something we feel we have no control over. It makes no sense, but it does make us feel worlds better. So, now I understand my husband's need to blame someone for the weather he hates so profoundly.
When it comes to blame, however, I am much more pragmatic and logical than my husband. I just blame the Republicans! And that is my exploding pop can!
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