My name is AmeliaJake and I’m a Kook – and proud of it.

As a result of yesterday’s inadequate warm-up, I was left with 1-3+ inches of rutted ice on my driveway and sidewalk. I went out to buy more rock salt, but the shortage is real. So I told the third person I talked to I’d buy some water softener salt pellets.

“But, Ma’am, that’s not for sidewalks”

“It says Morton’s and it says salt; sell it to me.”

The clerk and a bystander were shaking their heads.

Of course it didn’t work perfectly, but it worked enough. Had I more time, I would have made perforation holes to get my shovel an opening to slide under slabs. I did manage to dislodge several big chunks and I FEEL PROUD OF MYSELF.

Oh, no, I just remembered: Pride goeth before a fall. So apropos. Was that a written slip of the tongue. Oh, God, it’s a pun attack.