やあ、みんな。酔っ払いのGeorgeだよ。Dominic、チェアマンをありがとう。そして、３２年の
ソブラエティ神様・ハイヤーパワーとつながり、お酒を飲まない生活
と
ハイヤーパワー（HP=ハイヤーパワー）神、または高次の力、自分を超えた大きな力。意志と生き方をゆだねる対象。
、本当におめでとう。
昨日、午後１時ホットロッドのガレージへ行く前に妻のLoriに「ラジオで、６～１２インチの雪が降るって言ってたよ」と伝えたんだ。妻は「そうかしら、ワークアウト中にテレビで天気予報を見たら、そのお天気お姉さんが、雪は通り過ぎるエリアにあるって言ってて、おそらく雨だけだろうって言ってわよ。」
５７年製 GMC ピックアップ トラックを仕上げ、２９年モデル A フォードと ３５ 年プリマス クーペの作業を終えた後、ガレージの窓の外を眺めたんだ。凄い雪さ。めっちゃ雪が降っていたのさ。午後５時１５分に家に帰ろうとガレージのドアを開けたら６インチも積もった雪で無くしちまったよ。慎重にヒュンダイ・サンタフェに近づいて、乗り込んで、ワイパーを試してみたんだ。雪が酷過ぎて、ワイパーは動きやしない。外に出て、凍傷になりそうな指で全部の窓とヘッドライトの雪を全部取っ払った。
やっとのことでサンタフェを動かして家に向かったよ、ガレージのドアのボタンを押して、車に乗り込んだのさ。でも、家の裏口に入る前に、深い雪をかき分けないといけなかったんだ。中に入って大声で叫んだよ、「雪は降らないって言ってたけどさあ・・・」コートや帽子から雪が床にこぼれ落ちながら、メガネを外して拭きながらね。Loriも俺も大笑いでね。今も雪が降ってるね。大雪なわけだ。まあ、それが俺の上手くいくやり方なのさ。
Translator : hr
Hi, everyone. George, a drunk. Thank you, Dominic, for chairing, and congratulations to you and your Higher Power for achieving 32 years of sobriety.
Yesterday, before I headed to my hot rod garage at 1 p.m., I told my bride, Lori, that I heard on the radio that we were going to get six to twelve inches of snow. "No," said my wife, "I watched the weather program on Tv while I was at my workout place and the weather lady said we were in the area that would miss the snow, and it was likely we'd only get rain."
Finished with the '57 GMC pickup truck and after working on my '29 Model A Ford and '35 Plymouth coupe, I looked out the garage window. Snow. Lots of it. Tons of it were falling. At 5:15 p.m., I opened the garage door to return home but instead lost my shoes under six inches of packed snow. I cautiously approached our Hyundai Santa Fe, got in, and tried the wipers. Snow was too heavy; wiper blades wouldn't move. Got out and removed snow from all windows and headlights with frost-bitten fingers.
Finally, I got the Santa Fe started and headed home, pressed our home's garage door button, and drove in, but I had to traipse through deep snow before I could enter our home through the back door. Once in, I bellowed rather loudly, "My bride told me it wasn't going to snow, but . . . " Snow spilled downward from my coat and hat onto the floor as I took off my glasses and wiped them dry. Both Lori and I were howling in laughter. It's snowing right now. Plenty of it. And that's the way it works for me.
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