Die Hard (s)!

 Tuesday was not a very pleasant day around these parts.
 Rain. Lots of it. Heavy at times.
 But yet, there they were.
 The "Die Hards."
 You'll find them standing near the exit to the parking lot of
the Wilkes-Barre Vocational-Technical School.........Oh......
wait a minute. It's not the "Vo-Tech School" anymore.
 Somebody changed it somewhere along the line. It's now
the 'Wilkes-Barre Area Career and Technology Center.
  Reminds me of the "Empire Yankees."  They're still called
the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees on the YES Network and
in most of the papers around here. Didn't somebody write
something about "a rose by any other name.....?"
  Anyhow, there they were, the "Die Hards."  Not as many
as usual. But a handful of people. Students? Teachers?
I couldn't really tell.
  They gather at this spot, technically off of school property
I guess, to SMOKE!
  You know that old line about the postman? "Neither snow
nor rain" etc. I think that motto should be transferred to a
group like this!
  You've got to give them credit. They're soaked,.but "smoked."
  They're on "public property", a state highway, so there's no
fear of retribution from the school.
  Hey, with the exception of getting pneumonia in the rain and
cold, or getting run down by a passing vehicle, or that other
health problem folks have been mentioning about smoking,
they're doing just fine.
  And the best thing may be the fact they're less than a half mile
from the Geisinger Hospital!
   Hope you know when to stay out of the rain and that all your
NEWS is good!