What a relief when snowplows clear your street after a major
snow storm—until you walk outside and find your mailbox on the ground. What
happens next? I can tell you what you shouldn’t happen. No angry calls to the
snow plow folks complaining about damaged mailboxes. Damage is a hazard of the
season. You also don’t call the mailbox repair man because there isn’t one. Even
though you can call for help to clean your house, clear out the debris, pick up
your dry cleaning, mow the lawn, and shovel snow, no one’s coming to your house
to fix a mailbox. Last week we had to pick up our little mailbox off the ground
and move on. No use moping. It’s a time to get the creative do-it-yourself juices
flowing! You should see some of the contraptions people devise to solve snowy weather
problems. Here’s one:
It’s not what you’d expect to see after a snow storm, but it
is a solution that works. If you’re a regular news watcher, you’ll notice that
we’re becoming a society of emotional responders rather than creative
problem-solvers. Every week someone commits an unnecessary act of violence because
things didn’t work out according to their plans. We all overreact from time to
time. How do you control your anger?
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