When did we become such wussies!

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

Og Mandino

It's snowing today.

When I was a kid, weather like this would have been called flurries.

It has been more than a dusting for sure,but hardly a snow storm.

Still by 8am this morning, the governor had declared a snow emergency....7 hours before the first flakes were predicted to start falling.

The JCC where I work made the decision early to cut the day short and send everyone home at 1 o'clock, an hour before the early bus and completely canceling the 4 pm run.

Shoprite was packed at 10 am with people stocking up before the blizzard. Except there was no blizzard.

It was barely a snowfall.

As I said before,in my youthwe would have been hoping that the snowfall that started at 1 o'clock would continue for another 15 hours or so in hopes of school being cancelled the next day.

Of course that never happened!

So how much snow did this snow emergency bring?

About 1/2 an inch...

The news still had no problem running with it as the lead story tonight.

As if the entire NYC metropolitan area was being crippled by a record setting tsunami of snow.

It's kind of sad.

We have become soft.

We have become coddled.

We have become wusses!

In the words of James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano...."whatever happened to real men like Gary Cooper?"

It's a sad statement on life!