A foot and a half of snow. He had brought a foot and a half to this little city in the night, and yet, here he was, sitting in a tree next to a school, watching the children inside as they stared forlornly out the windows. He thought for sure that he'd made it snow enough to get them out of school, and happily looked forward to snowmen, sledding, and, his favorite, snowball fights as he flew across the town with a snowstorm at his heels. And then, they came in the night/early morning. The men in their snow plows scraped all of it off the road, making it look like Jack hadn't been there in the first place.

And then, then there was road salt. Jack didn't think he hated too many things, for the most part he said live and let live, but if there was one thing he was sure that he hated, it was the invention of road salt. Nearly every time, it was the reason that his plans for snowday fun and no school failed. The kids that he wanted to be able to have fun in the snow on a carefree day of no school, ending up having an even worse fate than normal school because of him. And, of course, the cursed road salt. Even worse than normal school, because their hopes had been built up for a snow day, and then they had to sit in class and look at the snow that they could have been playing in. It made Jack feel guilty, even though he knew that it wasn't really his fault.

Nothing would make Jack happier than making sure that snowplows and road ice went away and never came back. Maybe now that he had some powerful friends in the Guardians, he could convince them how vital it was to the children that those little white grains of terror be destroyed. It couldn't be that hard to wipe them off the face of the Earth, could it?


I'm sure we can all think of a time when something like this has happened to us (unless you are one of those unfortunate people who live in a place where it doesn't snow), the weatherman says it'll snow, and so you get all excited for a snow day, but the next day, thanks to those stupid snowplows and road salt, you still have to go to school. I'd imagine that this also ticks off Jack. . R&R!