Snow Monsters

     I can tell in my sleep if it’s snowing outside.
     I may not have amazing Snow ESP but when it snows people have to chain up their cars and trucks and when they drive by my house with tire chains at four A.M. I can hear them.
   Even in a deep sleep I can hear the clack, clack of chains on the pavement.


   I can also hear the snow plows beep beep beeping at four A.M. as they plow my street.
   (Sometimes I mistake this for the Smoke Monster from Lost and have really weird dreams. I don’t know why, maybe I just watch way to much Lost?)
   My Snow ESP is why, even if I have to get up at four A.M. for a five A.M. shift, I do not have to set my alarm early, in case it snows.
    If it snows during the night I will know.
    I will hear all the signs.
    I will wake up an hour early with no alarm needed to clear the snow off my wind shield way before the sun has even though to start coming up.
   Than I might cry that I am up and awake and out of my warm bed that early, but whatever. That is life.