The mountainless Vail

Lincoln looks like a mountainless Vail lately. We are getting snow about every night and people are walking around in their cool stuff--the kind of stuff you buy when you go to Vail but can't afford to go after you bought the stuff. You can tell the true Vailees. They have chunks of lift tickets hanging from their jacket zippers and they try to walk without limping.

Lincoln is alot like Vail. Of course, Vail doesn't have a college football team and the Sunken Gardens would be out of the question with the amount of snow they get. But we do have bunches of dumb drivers when it comes to driving on the snow. They forget to use the turn hand on the steering wheel while they are gesturing to the other hand that is holding the cell phone close to the ear. Crash. It would be fun to have a radio show with America's Funniest Cellphone Crash Conversation.

The snow removal has, well not been the best. The City and for that matter, the State both seem to be a little sluggish when it comes to moving the deeper white stuff from the street to the walk you have just shoveled. And drivers just don't seem to get the hang of new traffic flow. We have some of those circle roundout type of intersections where traffic is suppose to blend in and blend out and move along faster that stop-n-go. That is a very trendy idea in Beaver Creek, just a few hudred dollars down the roal from Vail. But in Lincoln, it's been more of a bend than a trend.

And let's not forget, Lincoln has tons more blue-hairs than Vail. After all, Vail is no place for grannies who don't like the cold andthe concept of throwing oneself off of frozen mountains on a couple of skinny boards or one fat board. Since these blue haired babes have more bunions than younger folks, it clearly would be....the agony of da feet.

So what do you do when you life in a place without mountains and with snow? You shop. You go to movies. You eat pizza. And, if you are very talented, you write a cute blog. :o)

Too many damn fools who live here do something really bad. As soon as the snow stops, they put on their cool ski clothes and try to drive a a car with a cell phone.