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More freakin' snow.
Good gods. It's going to snow /again/ tomorrow. It already snowed Wednesday and Thursday. Snow makes me want to throw up. Especially three snow storms in one week. Tomorrow's is supposed to be 4-8 inches throughout the day.
I'd also like to personally beat up the jackoff who is not from my neighborhood and who parked in my nicely shoveled out parking space today. Who is still there now. Which means my little car is currently sitting on a pile of ice and snow across the street. Which means trying to shovel the car out tomorrow after the storm is going to be ridiculous. Which means I shoveled yesterday for nothing. Which means... well, I don't know what it means, but I was kind of in a verbal rut there. And I'm irritated.
I'd really like that red car to leave now. I know all of the cars in my part of the neighborhood, and it is not one of the 'regulars.' Hopefully that means the car will be gone soon. I know it's not likely someone visiting one of my neighbors, because my neighbors are all pretty cool about leaving people's shoveled spots alone. (Also, one of my nice neighbors shoveled a path to my car's front door yesterday while shoveling the sidewalk.) I think if the red car isn't gone by later tonight, I'm going to post-it little notes that say, "Did you shovel out this nice parking space?" to its windshield.
Viva la guilt!
I'd also like to personally beat up the jackoff who is not from my neighborhood and who parked in my nicely shoveled out parking space today. Who is still there now. Which means my little car is currently sitting on a pile of ice and snow across the street. Which means trying to shovel the car out tomorrow after the storm is going to be ridiculous. Which means I shoveled yesterday for nothing. Which means... well, I don't know what it means, but I was kind of in a verbal rut there. And I'm irritated.
I'd really like that red car to leave now. I know all of the cars in my part of the neighborhood, and it is not one of the 'regulars.' Hopefully that means the car will be gone soon. I know it's not likely someone visiting one of my neighbors, because my neighbors are all pretty cool about leaving people's shoveled spots alone. (Also, one of my nice neighbors shoveled a path to my car's front door yesterday while shoveling the sidewalk.) I think if the red car isn't gone by later tonight, I'm going to post-it little notes that say, "Did you shovel out this nice parking space?" to its windshield.
Viva la guilt!
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Tis entirely legal and well deserved.
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But perhaps if the car's still there til tomorrow when we have the next snowstorm, I can conveniently move all of my snow onto that side of the street.
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But it would be damn funny.
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At the risk of having my tires slashed, it's a public street...
*duck and cover*
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Sure I don't own the street, but I spent 45 minutes shoveling out that particular part of the street in an ice storm only yesterday. Since there are lots of lots of feet of streetside out there, and only one little 10-foot section is shoveled, I think it's a safe bet for the Red Car Person to assume that this patch of street was nice and clean because someone put effort into it.
Just like it's polite to shovel the sidewalk in front of your house so people can walk, so too it's polite to pull into a snowier spot than the one clean one since you know you obviously had no part in cleaning it off. I mean, it's not like there was no other place for the car.
If I knew I was going to be somewhere all day and overnight (which this car certainly is, as it's still there), I would never park in the one shoveled space on an entire street. Because it's rude.
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We have our own issues here in the 'burbs. For instance, every time I go out to shovel my driveway, just a few minutes after I finish, the plow comes back down the street and puts a three-foot wide wall across the end of my driveway. Should I go yell at the plow guy for being rude? No...he has no better option than to plow the snow across my driveway.
I've never really heard about the kind of snow wars we have in Boston happening in other cities. It's one of the charming (silly?), provincial, quaint little details that makes Boston so unique.
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Maybe I see things differently because I drive around Dorchester and Roxbury all day, every day for work. In order to go to, say, six home visits in a day, I need to drive to six homes and find six parking places. I crunch a lot of snow. I drive onto a lot of snowbanks. I spin my wheels a lot. I hack a lot of snow. Sometimes I pull into a cleaned-off parking space, but I know I will be gone in an hour.
I mean, I'm irritated. I'm human, and people get irritated. I'm not going to even speak to the person about it, and I'm certainly not sitting here thinking of ways to make his/her life miserable. I just wish that s/he would have gone to one of the other spots on the road first. That's all. After all, it's not like s/he would be parking in a snowbank (there's sure not enough snow/ice right now for that)... but it /is/ true that the other space wouldn't have been as immaculate and lovely as the one I left.
I don't expect everyone to agree with me on this. And maybe I'm kind of a doormat personality or something for saying that if I was staying somewhere overnight, I would have chosen a different space. But I would have. And that's the honest truth.
During the last big storm (that big Sunday one), I helped an older woman who lives across the street with me shovel out her car so she could go out. We hacked and shoveled together for quite a while. It took a lot of work. And I would never have parked in that space while there was still snow on the ground. I just don't think it would be right. So we disagree on this. That's cool. It's just something I feel strongly about as part of some winter courtesy.
I mean, just as I don't technically own the street, I also don't technically have a responsibility to shovel the sidewalk (as the homeowner, I'm pretty sure that guilt goes to my landlord). But if I'm home doing nothing and there's a pile of snow on the sidewalk, I'm pretty assy and rude if I don't take the time to move it for someone else.
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You could certainly go for something more ... forceful ... if you want. :D
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I did, however, leave a little post-it on the driver's side door that said something like, "Dear Car Owner: Perhaps it did not occur to you that the nicely shoveled parking space you are occupying became so nice and desirable because of someone else's hard work. Since there is another incoming snowstorm tomorrow, perhaps in your next stop on your travels you will remember someone's sweat and effort and choose a parking space with more kindness. Thank you."
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"Dear Car Owner: Perhaps it did not occur to you that the nicely shoveled parking space you are occupying became so nice and desirable because of someone else's hard work. Since there is another incoming snowstorm tomorrow, perhaps in your next stop on your travels you will remember someone's sweat and effort and choose a parking space with more kindness. Thank you."
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I am more than willing to shovel out my car, which is pretty well evidenced by the fact that I do it /every/ /snowstorm/. And will do so again today. It's just going to be a heck of a lot harder now because I had to park on uneven, crunched-down, slippery, frozen mess on the other side of the street because of someone else's rudeness.
So while I /will/ go an get some fresh air later while I try to chip at snow-covered ice by my lonesome, at least I can sit comfortably in the knowledge that I am pleasing you by getting exercise. And then I will try not to worry about the fact that I had a really bad day yesterday, and that I'm really hurting today, and it all would have been made just a /little/ bit better by some stranger's fucking kindness and courtesy.
Or maybe I'm just a whiner who needs to suck it up. I guess I'll leave that opinion up to you.