Alright, who just washed their car?

This past Monday morning was sunny.  I did a load of laundry and hung it out to dry in the early spring light.  The temperature didn't feel too cool but there was a brisk breeze blowing.  I figured my clothes would dry, be it a not as soon as on a calm spring day but eventually.

Following that I hauled the summer tires down from my apartment veranda and into my car.  Drove over to the local service station and asked to have my tires changed.  Also asked them to wash the car.  Seemed like a good idea at the time.

As I was having lunch at Cafe ARB, someone piped up it had been snowing hard a while ago.  Must of been while I was sitting in the service station with my back to the window.  My immediate response was "I can do without that!".  Nonetheless, as I walked back to my apartment I could see snow flakes.  Snow flakes...yes, in April.  Not like on April Fool's Day back in 2013.  No, it was the 11th of April.

By mid afternoon the snow was coming down steadily.  My clothes were getting wetter rather than drier.  So I hauled them in and hung them on the clothes rack in my dining room.

When I went out to get groceries after 6pm the situation hadn't improved.  No, the weather was decidedly like early December.  The air had cooled off significantly and the snow was coming down quite hard.  On my way out from the supermarket I took the following photograph with my iPhone.

The next day I joked in several classes that I had tempted fate too much by having my tires swapped AND getting the car washed.  I think I set up the joke well because all my students got a chuckle out of it....