Ha! That’s why the people I was with and I are still resting here in the cold
Almost as if reading my thoughts, my husband told us to make a quick exit to the backdoor, “and try not to slip on the ice”, he yelled almost as an afterthought. In those 30 sixths from automobile to house, my eyep burned shut into squints, my nose hairs froze, plus my once warmed body became an instant snowman praying for the inside of that house. The four of us: husband, several kids plus myself scrambled plus cramped into the tiny mudroom. The two of us suddenly took off our coats plus boots plus opened the house door to the welcoming…..Frost? Why was I still breathing frost in what was supposed to be a heavenly host of warmth plus security? His parents greeted us; fully dressed in layers handing us the promised cocoa, plus explained the weather had frozen the pipes of their aged home plus the furnace was no longer coming out. Their only source of heat was the small electric fireplace that gave off a 2ft circumference of warmth. My husband’s mother complained, “I told your father to have a Heating plus Air Conditioning serviceman check the pipes plus machine to this aged house long before the storm hit, but NO he told me he could repair anything that broke. Ha! That’s why the people I was with and I are still resting here in the cold. Not to worry the repairman should be here tomorrow day, weather permitting”, his mother chirped along. “We’ll all stay warm bundled under all these blankets snuggled together.” It was not a warm evening at all. They should have thought about wonderful heating service.