You could prove your manhood a lot quicker by challenging a snowplow to a fistfight. You know, if your heart can take it.
Ha ha very funny, but it’s funny you say that. Over the past few weeks there have been news stories about guns being pulled on snow plow drivers, snow plow drivers getting punched, threatened, snow balls thrown at them. I join those that condemn these acts, but it’s clear I’m not the only one who is pissed at these guys, and municipalities better take note, and find some way to change how they plow snow, so no one gets seriously hurt. The people have risen against these fucks.
I might get killed here by fellow Canadians and Winnipeggers, but we have had 160 or so cm of snow thus far and the plows do a masterful job on my street of keeping the damn snow from plugging the driveway. They use a narrow plow to do one side, and then back up to clear the snow that falls into the driveway. Then they do the other side, etc. The extra snow is piled on top of existing piles on either side of my driveway, and these piles are fucking huge. Now, I have a 68 ft wide lot, as do most houses in my neighbourhood, so it might not be too hard, but smaller lots and really narrow streets have it worse. But I love the way they clear out my driveway, as my hubby has a heart problem and shovelling snow is not part of his health regimen…
I don’t know about you but when I hear a beeping object coming at me, I’m going to make sure that I don’t step into its path.
We live on a corner. A few days ago the town came out and widened the street, the snow banks were about 4 feet from the curb. They did this by using a front end loader and piling the snow in our front yard, about 6 feet high, on our front lawn.
My wife got pissed and left a message at the town garage that they had to come and remove the huge pile.
They finally sent a dump truck and a front end loader. At 2:30 this fucking morning! They didn’t even remove the top of the pile, just the first two feet by the street, over the sidewalk, so it really had no effect. Bunch of assholes.
When it melts, maybe in June, we are going to have a literal shit ton of trash and sand/gravel that we have to clean off the lawn so that grass can grow.
Today I came home and the whole snowpile was gone. We had a phone message from the highway department that the supervisor came out and saw the mess, and realized it was awful and wrong and that they would remove it within a few days, and they were very sorry. But nicely it was gone within a few hours.
So fuck snowplow drivers, and bless their supervisors! I hope the driver got a lot of shit for what he did, and he never does it again. My wife called back and left a nice message thanking them for taking care of it.
Huh. We have many a six-foot pile in the yard just from clearing the snow – but I guess if there was actual trash in your street that was dumped in with the snow, it makes sense they should clean it up.
I’m still waiting for russian heel to explain what he thinks is the ‘right way’ to plow a street.
Careful, he’s not a pussy and is willing to prove it.
Why aren’t you people making snowmen and snowforts with all this snow? Other than the cold, I bet snow is really fun to play in. If I had a wall of snow in my front yard, I’d probably carve the Great Wall of China into it just for the hell of it
Because it’s just part of life and nothing new or unusual. You may play around in it the first couple times it snows, but it gets pretty old after awhile.
Every winter I say this will be the winter I play in the snow, making snow angels and letting snow fall on my face. Instead I stay in my quasi-subterranean lair looking out at it.
When your Great Wall of China gets three more inches on top of it two days later, a foot five days after that, four inches two days after that, and so on and so on for about four months, it’s going to wind up looking more like the Himalayas.
Yeah, it doesn’t just snow once during the winter and you are done. It will snow several times, sometimes more than once a day.
Also, if your snow is like the crap we’ve been getting lately it won’t stick together well enough to make anything out of.
Plus, by the time you shovel and stuff you are just too damn tired and sick of it to do any playing.
Right now the snowbanks are rock hard masses of dirty ice mixed with sand and street debris. Have fun with that.
You can always have them stop plowing and be trapped in your little man cave until Spring, Che.
And you are such a ‘Real Man’ that shoveling snow more than once makes you useless.
Sure.
You just made the list, friendo. He’d kick your ass if, you know, he could get out of his driveway. Can you wait until spring?
Thats not my job. I pay tax dollars that go to the salaries of government workers to figure that out. What I do know is the way they do it isnt good enough.
The second time you made such a comment. Do you have any new material or will you just keep responding to every post with a “russian heel will kick your ass” not-so-wisecrack?