Lunch, Repaired Glasses, Car Scraper and Parking Space

You know who has a garage after a snow storm. When you are on the freeway it’s really obvious when the ice and leftover flakes start flying at your windshield from the vehicles in front. So after three days of being housebound, we decided it was time to get outside aside from taking a morning walk. So we went to lunch in Alexandria. But the real reason for our trip was to pick up my husband’s repaired eyeglasses at Voorthuis. We made sure our car was brushed clean before we started out, but noticed our scraper was a bit worn. So we stopped at Ace Hardware after munching on tortilla soup, salad, and a chicken sandwich. Of course we also ordered a chicken Parmesan dinner to go so we don’t have to think about dinner. We ended up with a long handled neon green scraper with a brush - and my husband used it to clear off any remaining ice on the car roof. The best part is that the repaired glasses are so much better than the very old substitute pair he’s been wearing for the last three weeks. They are lighter, less bulky, with a more recent prescription lens. And to top it all off when we got back home there was actually a parking space right in front of our house. We don’t have a garage so it’s always a pain to get parking in the neighborhood especially during the week. But with the government closed, we can tell because it’s so much less congested. Hopefully we won’t need the darn scraper any more, but I have my doubts. We’ve had more snow in DC than the Midwest town we escaped from. At least there we had a garage.