“Now the guy’s got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy’s gotta come up with Paulie’s money every week, no matter what. Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fuck you, pay me!”
I feel for you corner-dwellers; I used to live on a corner, and it was a bitch. I moved a few months ago, and now there’s no sidewalk, just a little bit that goes from the door to the driveway. Plus, not as much yard to mow. I’m happier than a pig in shit…
Thanks for reminding me Ferret Herder.
I had a heart attack and am now frozen in a snow bank and my sidewalk is only partially shoveled.
Fuck you. Shovel your sidewalk.
I have a tiny little irrational fear that one day some bizarre set of circumstances will end up moving me to somewhere that has snow and I won’t know the rules. I didn’t know you have to shovel your sidewalk! (I am only a little clear on what a snow shovel looks like, though.)
A snow shovel is anything remotely shovel-like that you can use to pick up snow and move it. We improvise. So if you haven’t bought any type of shovel, get out a bucket. 
I know a lot of people who have had to get new debit and credit cards because they forgot their ice scraper and used their cards on the car windows.
But honestly, there are certain types of shovels people buy for ergonomics or comfort or whatever, but people also use the same shovel they use to plant the garden every year.
Well, this is the place to fight ignorance. Just ask here. I’m sure you’ll get a five page response in less than an hour. 
And I don’t have a sidewalk, but we do clear off the driveway and the side of the road beside our house. But I don’t blame people for not doing it two years ago with the ice storm, broken tree branches and downed powerlines.
I was so happy that didn’t happen again. I’ll ask if any of the harder hit areas have power outages in a more appropriate thread.
Question from a non-American - how is it that the sidewalk outside your home is considered “yours”? I would’ve assumed it’s public property. It’s not obvious to me how snow shovelling is different from other maintenance, but i doubt you’re responsible for that too.
You have to shovel your sidewalk. You have to shovel it in a timely fashion (within 24 hours of a snowfall here and I suspect most places). You should (don’t have to) shovel the snow onto your own yard, not the street - your grass and trees need the water, the road does not. You should do it slowly with proper bending and lifting technique so you don’t hurt yourself. You should have a discussion with your landlord as to who is responsible for shovelling (I think this is why a lot of sidewalks aren’t shovelled - tenants don’t do it, and the landlords don’t bother) and bust your landlord’s ass if he doesn’t do it within 24 hours (if he can’t make it over, he needs to make arrangements - as a homeowner, he is still responsible). If you’re old and you can’t shovel, you can’t afford anyone to help you, and you have no one to help you, you need to think about maybe living somewhere that doesn’t have sidewalks you’re responsible for.
You also have to salt/sand if you get ice from melt-off on the sidewalk, too (melts in the day, freezes at night). Sidewalk maintenance doesn’t stop with taking the snow off. I was walking to Safeway this winter and one house along the way had sheer ice for the entire length of their sidewalk - seriously, people, you have to do something about that.
In case it wasn’t obvious, I heartily endorse this pitting. Shovel your sidewalks.
And for those of you (us) who park on street; shovel out the whole spot, not just enough for 4 wheels. It’s all gonna freeze up and get real messy, make a real parking spot so we can use it for a while. This snow ain’t going anywhere soon.
There are some of those in my neighbourhood, too. One egregious example (hasn’t shovelled their damned sidewalk once in the two winters I’ve been here) has no sidewalk in front of their house, but sidewalk along the side. Guess what - you’re not off the hook. If you don’t like being responsible for the sidewalk along the side, guess you shouldn’t live there.
For the record, I’m a corner lot owner, and I shovel not only both sidewalks, but I also clean up the back alley entranceway if it needs it (mostly because my Corolla gets stuck if I don’t, but still).
I died alone in my home, and no one has noticed I’ve passed yet.
Fuck you. Shovel your sidewalk.
Damned straight. If you suspect that there’s the most remote possibility of you dying, ever, arrange for someone to shovel your sidewalk.
The thieves will notice when the break into your house cause it’s obvious no one is home.
I wish I could. Someone with a 4-wheeler & blade does it and every other public sidewalk on my block before I can get to it.
In civilized cities, the city shovels its own damn sidewalk.
However, if your city is too cheap for that, shovel your fucking sidewalk!
Yes. Terribly wrong. Snow is pain.
I have no sympathy for people who take on responsibilities that they can’t fulfill due to age or infirmity. Owning a home in the U.S. means you’re responsible for clearing snow and ice off the sidewalks in front of it. If you can’t clear your walkways, you need to hire or persuade someone to do it for you. If you can’t do that, you need to live somewhere where you’re not responsible for clearing the walks.
I probably shoudln’t be laughing at that.
An excellent song by Viva La Foxx.
Pissed-off pedestrian chiming in here with more hearty support for this message.
Thank Og for my wonderful dream landlords who are VERY conscientious about keeping the walks cleared, and I kinda suspect they snowblow the whole sidewalk of every single block where they own a house. I definitely notice a difference between blocks where my landlords have property and the neighboring blocks.
And even though the landlords are so good about it and it’s their responsibility, I will get out there and shovel the walk myself if I happen to be home before they’ve had a chance to shovel. Goddammit, this is no time to be splitting hairs about whose job it is, we need this fucking snow out of the way so people can fucking walk.
This winter, I am trying to pump up my Gandhi-esque compassion and universal sense of duty far enough to be able to implement the proper response to my rat-bastard lazy asshole neighbors across the street who always leave their sidewalks uncleared ALL FUCKING WINTER right on the busiest stretch of the street where it’s least safe to be walking out in traffic and where I have to stand in the street to wait for the bus because the rat-bastard lazy asshole neighbors won’t shovel the walk.
The proper response will be that I will go and shovel their sidewalk. And I will not say anything to them about it.
But all the rest of you lazy rotten shovel shirkers, yeah. Shovel your sidewalk.
I’m getting the hang of the dope.
January is rape month.
February is snow month.
Holy shit - some CITIES shovel the sidewalks? We’ve lived in our house for 10 years and have never even seen a snowplow on our street.
Then again, our street doesn’t have sidewalks. But still.
Speaking of pissed-off pedestrians, there’s this church near me that never shovels its fucking sidewalk. They never make any effort to get rid of the ice there, either. It’s gotten so bad that everyone deliberately walks on the other side of the street in order to avoid that death trap.
God will take care of my snow and ice problem.
Fuck you. Shovel your sidewalk.