Underground conversation

"Psst. Hey."
"Wake up!"

" Huh? What?!"

"It's that time! Look alive!"
"You know what you have to do!"

" Why do *I* always hafta go first?"

"Oh, not the drama queen bit again!"
"We go through this every year!"

"It's COLD up there!"

"But it's not AS cold as it was last month! ... most of the time, anyway."
"Look, you want to greet spring, don't you?"

"... No ... not really actually."

"Come now, we've had some warm days!"
"Above 45 degrees even!"

"It snowed last week."

"Ah, well ..."

"It's supposed to snow tonight."

"Well ... look, someone has to go first."
"And that someone has to be you."
"Look, we'll be right behind you ... "
"Exactly! We're just giving you a ... two week head start!"

"Enough for a couple more snowstorms and a week's worth of frost."

"All right, that's enough bellyaching. Don't make us push you up!"
"We'll give you to the count of three."
"One ... two ... "

"All right, all right ... FINE!"


"Just because I'm up here doesn't mean I hafta unclench my petals. Which by the way have ice on them courtesy of last night."

Happy semi-spring.