This is my snowmageddon story. Today I had to go to the pharmacy, which meant clearing all the snow off my car. This was a difficult task, requiring the brush and the scraper ends of my snow brush/scraper. There were several inches of snow atop more solid-ish ice/snow.
Then I grabbed the shovel to clear some of the snow in front of the car, and the stuff the plow had pushed over, making a nice wall between the street and the parked cars. My car had been running the whole time, heating up, so when I got in it was warm. I still had to rub my hands for a minute before starting to drive.
Something occurred on the 1.5 mile drive. It was some combination of the car-heat (which always makes me sick, I hate the heaters in cars), the burst of exertion, and me only eating a bowl of cereal thus far in the day, but I started freakin’ the geek out. I was breathing in and out heavily, had difficulty concentrating, and almost missed the CVS. Getting out of the car, I felt weightless, and when I got to the pharmacy counter, my entire body was shaking, I felt weak/dizzy, and could barely sign my name (which I had to do 3 times, ugh!)
Once the pharmacy errand was done, I wandered through the store randomly choosing things to buy. I was running out of food at home, and felt like I needed to eat something right away, even before going home.
I bought: nutrigrain yogurt-filled (which I had never had before; I do not like them), some sort of special-k granola bar (again, never had before, don’t like), red gatorade, cranberry juice (100%!), diced peaches in those little individual cups, a Milky Way, Reese’s peanut butter cups, and a jar of dry roasted peanuts. All of this is stuff I never normally buy. I ate a nutrigrain in the car, and drove home.
It was a weird experience.
