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It could be worse. It could be -45\u00b0.<\/em><\/p>\n

That was my first thought when I scrolled through Facebook and saw the low temperatures my friends, both near and far, were posting. Curious, I checked the local temperature on my phone.<\/p>\n

“It’s -21\u00b0,” I told my husband.<\/p>\n

He shook his head. “That’s cold.”<\/p>\n

“It could be worse. It could be -45\u00b0.”<\/p>\n

We silly grinned at each other as we remembered the stupidest thing we ever did in the coldest weather of our married lives.<\/p>\n

It was a February Sunday in 1982.
\nWe were a young and foolish.
\nWe’d been married for 4 years.
\nWe lived in Camp Crook, South Dakota.<\/p>\n

Someone called to say church had been cancelled because it was -45\u00b0. I wanted to know what -45\u00b0 felt like. The inner door worked without a hitch, but the screen door barely moved. It wasn’t frozen shut, but the lubricant in its push\/pull mechanism had congealed. It took some muscle to open it. I poked my head out for maybe a second and pulled it right back in. -45\u00b0 is cold. Really cold.<\/p>\n

But not cold enough to say no when our friend Craig called. “Liz and I are going out to eat in Spearfish. Want to come?”<\/p>\n

“It’s -45\u00b0,” we said.<\/p>\n

“We’ll warm up the car,” they said. “We’re not leaving until noon. It’ll be warmer then.”<\/p>\n

They was right. It was only -30\u00b0 when we crawled into Craig and Liz’s car. The sun was shining. The car was toasty. Dinner was tasty, and we all returned home safely. So why do I say the trip was the stupidest thing we’ve ever done? Consider the following details:<\/p>\n

Camp Crook is 100 miles from Spearfish.
\nThere are only 2 towns between where we lived and where we were going.
\nI was 5 months pregnant.
\nThat’s why I know it was 1982.
\nNow do you see why it was the stupidest thing we ever did?<\/p>\n

Then again, it’s a shared memory that makes us grin and say, whenever the temperature dips into the double digits below zero, “It could be worse. It could be -45\u00b0”<\/p>\n

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