Worst supermarket trip ever!

[Hortensis]

8. Hah! Nothing! My own very first drive on ice and snow was

coming over the I-5 "Grapevine" freeway into LA from the Central Valley in California. Imagine this freeway through the mountains -- only in the dusk and snowing and the freeway newly covered with a blanket of snow so that all lanes and verge lines are invisible, with hundreds of vehicles of all sizes somewhere on it driving at every possible speed from crawl to 60.

And you know almost none have snow tires, much less chains, and that many are almost as clueless as you about driving in these conditions (Southern California), and some apparently a lot more stupid.

When I got to the next exit I spent a good 45 minutes calming my jitters over coffee before climbing back on and getting to the business of going home.