If you are at work, and you ask out loud, “Hey, how fast can the millennium Falcoln do the Kessel run?”, there is a good chance that you may be a big, fat nerd. If you do not fear strange looks from your co-workers, there is a good chance that your co-workers may also be big, fat nerds. If you get an immediate response and use the phrase, “That’s what I thought,” then both may be true. If you argue over whether the answer “12 parsecs” is correct, because Han Solo clearly described the ship as doing the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs, even I could probably teach you what it means to be cool. If you consult with any type of hard copy (Star Wars Trivia guide, Living like Luke, The Jedi Handbook, etc.) to prove you are right, you win. But, on so many levels, you lose.

If you live in Hull, you got 3 feet of snow yesterday, and the hurricane force winds created massive snow drifts that were taller than you by a foot before the plow even got there. You are also facing 8-10 inches tomorrow. 8 days ago, you experienced 2 straight days of 60 degree weather.

If I am offered 2 degrees and sunny or 32 and snowy, I’m taking the snow even if its 3 feet and leaves a 7 foot drift outside my door. If you offer 3 feet and 2 degrees, I’m staying in and playing the PS2.

If you take your garbage out in a blizzard, you will wade through waist deep snow and 40 MPH winds to get to the dumpster. In the short walk, your frozen beard will make you look like Mr. Cold Miser. Because life is a comedy, when you get to the dumpster chute and you inadvertently fling one of your gloves in, you will hopefully smile before sliding down the chute after it while your GF doubles over laughing at you.

If you attempt to further entertain your GF by diving off a 10 foot high rock head first into a 7 foot snow bank, after you finish wiggling your legs in the air like you were stuck, you may be surprised at the kids 25 years your junior laughing an waving out of their windows. You will feel young until you later think, “Man, thank goodness there wasn’t a stick in there to take my eye out.”

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