I Don't Care If It's April: You Still Have To Clean the Snow Off Your Car!
"Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel" ~ John Quincy Adams
Global Warming indeed! Is that why we had snow in Cleveland on Sunday and snow in Chicago today?
Anyway, the Global Warming has really snarled traffic here in Chicagoland. Seems everyone has forgotten how to drive in it. The snow is that wet, heavy kind that can give you a heart attack if you try to shovel it off your driveway too energetically. I guess that's why so many folks forgo cleaning the snow off their vehicles. They're merely trying to avoid cardiac arrests. Some people are in such bad shape they don't even bother to clear it off their windshields.
I can see moving mounds of snow on our roads - vans in snow camouflage! The drivers are guiding their vehicles by looking through tiny slits. What are they doing? They're totally blind - cut off from all knowledge of what the traffic is doing around them.
Others have taken a little trouble - they've at least cleaned off their windows. But the snow remains on the roof and hood. The snow on top flys back on the vehicles behind when these guys accelerate. It slides forward and down the windshield when they brake. The snow on the hood blows onto the windshield during acceleration, thus negating the initial cleaning effort.
People, it's not that hard to take a brush and a scraper to the car. Come on. Clean the snow off before you move out.
After all, we're not trying to avoid detection like the troops on the Russian Front back in the 1940's. We actually have a better chance of survival if we're plainly visible these days.
See and be seen.
Global Warming indeed! Is that why we had snow in Cleveland on Sunday and snow in Chicago today?
Anyway, the Global Warming has really snarled traffic here in Chicagoland. Seems everyone has forgotten how to drive in it. The snow is that wet, heavy kind that can give you a heart attack if you try to shovel it off your driveway too energetically. I guess that's why so many folks forgo cleaning the snow off their vehicles. They're merely trying to avoid cardiac arrests. Some people are in such bad shape they don't even bother to clear it off their windshields.
I can see moving mounds of snow on our roads - vans in snow camouflage! The drivers are guiding their vehicles by looking through tiny slits. What are they doing? They're totally blind - cut off from all knowledge of what the traffic is doing around them.
Others have taken a little trouble - they've at least cleaned off their windows. But the snow remains on the roof and hood. The snow on top flys back on the vehicles behind when these guys accelerate. It slides forward and down the windshield when they brake. The snow on the hood blows onto the windshield during acceleration, thus negating the initial cleaning effort.
People, it's not that hard to take a brush and a scraper to the car. Come on. Clean the snow off before you move out.
After all, we're not trying to avoid detection like the troops on the Russian Front back in the 1940's. We actually have a better chance of survival if we're plainly visible these days.
See and be seen.
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