Two hours from Tsunan to Tokamachi? I should have walked!!

When I left school yesterday I, as did the other teachers, found that my car under two foot of snow. I set to work with my handy brush/squeegy, feeling lucky that I remembered to bring my snowboarding gloves, and in half an hour the car was freed from the snow (note to self, when you park at school in future, reverse into the space so you can use the more powerful forward gears to drive over snow).

The journey back to Tokamachi was as slow as I'd expected; The temperature had dropped so even the parts of the road with waterjets were a little icey so I was taking my time to make sure i didn't have an accident. What I didn't expect was some idiot driver deciding that teh safest way to drive in the dark on an icey road was to tailgate me all teh way to Tokamachi. I couldnt believe what I saw in my rear mirror (or rather what I couldn;t see at times; the headlights). I tried all I could think of to get the Idiot to back off; slowing down more than necesary, tapping my brake lights twice as a warning flash, pulling over as much as I could (not that much) to let the Idiot pass. But nothing. The Idiot still stayed there, headlights bobbing in and out of vision. I don;t know what was worse; the distraction that kept me from concentrating on where I was going, or the idea that if I braked the Idiot would slam into the back of my car.
After an hour, I made it home. When I pulled over, I glared as much as a I could to the Idiot, but I think the misty, snowy side windows might have taken the edge off the gesture.

And my reward for making it back safely? Why, another half hour's worth of snow-shovelling to clear a way to my garage, of course!

Just focus on the snowboarding.