Usually, talk about snowstorms happening in the cities I live in are full of hyperbole and sensationalism. Huge storms often turn into nothing, but this time the predictions were pretty much right on. I think the final accumulation count came to right around 20 inches.
What I do know is that uncovering two cars from 20 inches of snow takes forever and is tiring as hell. I also realized that it brings the grumpy old man in me out. Half of the time I was shoveling snow I kept thinking that I was going to do all this work, and as soon as I moved my car some lazy jackass that didn’t shovel their car out was going to park in my space. Then when I got back I was going to be stuck with a crappy space that I can’t get in and out of. Sort of makes the whole exercise feel futile. I realize that I can’t do anything about it, but it doesn’t make me any less annoyed about it.
In a positive karmic twist, the gods are blessing me with an unexpected day off from work. Apparently, all that snow I was shoveling was enough to lock down the area enough for them to cancel work here. I’ll take another day off from work for losing my good parking space.
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I hear you. Our driveway took forever to dig out and now it’s basically an ice luge. But, I would be seriously p.o.’d if someone stole my shoveled out space.