UPS Really Delivers

Well, as many of you may know this week is semester break for me. This week, everyone in my family, including my grandparents and aunt's family went up to Big Bear. We left on Tuesday morning, planning to come back on Thursday afternoon. After my one-year-old cousin woke up at 3 am in the morning crying and after my dad and my brother almost froze their butts off on Tuesday night, we decided that we should leave on Wednesday night. On Wednesday night it just so happened to snow....great. It just so happened that we didn't have snow chains too. We quickly piled into our 2 cars and started our journey home. The passengers in my car included my brother, my dad, and me. While going down the mountain in a snow storm we passed at least 5 signs that read "SNOW CHAINS REQUIRED!” We were going at about 5 miles per hour following a train of 100 cars and trucks. We were going so slow our GPS had a hard time tracking us. About 3 cars in front of us there was a UPS truck that had snow chains on. We started shouting very colorful words about going faster at the truck. At about 4,000 ft and 33 degrees the snow turned into rain and the visibility cleared. We used the passing lane to pass all the trucks and cars with snow chains on. We ended up getting home safely. The next day, which is today, my dad, went over to my aunt's house to pick up my grandparents. My uncle then explained that the UPS truck and all the cars with snow chains on had really saved our lives. Our car had no 4 wheel drive and no snow chains on. The snow chains were eating up the snow creating a dry road for us to safely travel on. If it wasn't for the cars with snow chains on, we would have gotten into an accident. So UPS truck I take back all the nasty thoughts about you and I promise to use your service, because I know that you not only deliver packages but you deliver lives too. :)