There's the usually excusable "coming in just a couple of minutes late" when you're meeting someone for dinner.
There's the "oh. crap. that's screwed everything up" when you arrive any time after an interview was supposed to start.
There's the "I'm so sorry, I took a wrong turn" when you apologize away your arrival at the doctor's office.
There's "I should have been born during a different era" which, really, isn't something people typically apologize for.
And then there's this winter's weather. We in Minneapolis have had - in essence - fall since last September. We had weirdly warm temps in January and early February. Winter was standing us up, and - frankly - aside from the fact that we *really* need the moisture, we've been pretty much okay with it.
This weekend we were supposed to get a decent snow, but it all went north of us. And, again, we were pretty much okay with that. But now it seems that winter is feeling bad about being so late.
The forecast for this coming week has snow on at least 5 of the next 7 days. In fact, there is already a winter weather advisory for Tuesday and Wednesday. The predictions are saying we could have "1.5 to 2 inches of moisture." That might not be too bad as rain, since the ground isn't completely frozen so we shouldn't get *too much* flooding.
If, though, it comes down as snow, there's a chance for it to be "fluffed up by a factor of 10" (at least according to the weather folks). For those of you with math difficulties, that means that - worst case scenario - we could be looking at 15 to 20 inches of snow by the middle of the week. (Plus the other 3 predicted snow days on the forecast.)
You know, as much as I hate it when people are late for dinner, or appointments of any kind - and I appreciate when they offer to make up the difference as part of their apologies - I think I'd have been okay if winter had just gone about its business and not tried to make up for the delay.
We'll see what kind of apologies the weather comes up with.
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