34. Ground Hog's Day

I do not think I have a ground hog's day story, I have never really cared about what the groundhog "told us". I never have thought that the groundhog has super magical powers and that he could predict or even change the future of the weather for the following six weeks. So if the groundhog sees his shadow, we have six more weeks of winter? And if he does not see his shadow spring comes early? Well that does not really make sense...What if the sun is not out because for some reason the sky is really cloudy and therefore the groundhog will not see his shadow? That seems pretty far fetched in my opinion. But whatever, if people want to make it a huge deal and make it a holiday, then they can go for it. Obviously enough people care about it to have live news reports watch some guys wake up a ground hog and have him come out of his hole so he can tell us what the weather will be like for the next six weeks. Well, today was groundhog's day and I heard that the ground hog did see his shadow, which means six more weeks of winter. The thing that gets me curious is how it had been cloudy aaaall morning, yet the people are saying he say his shadow. Well of course he saw his shadow if you have a bunch of cameras and lights around his hole to video tape it? He will definately see his shadow then, no matter what the other conditions are. If you can not tell already, I think Ground hog's day is a very dumb 'holiday', if you would choose to call it that. Oh, also, I have never seen the movie Groundhog's Day, but I have heard that it is really good so I would like to see it sometime. I remember by middle school english teacher bringing up the movie every time ground hog's day rolled around.