After the big snow (4 ft, I think) I made a big sign that said "Didn't shovel it? Can't have it." If I can't stand there menacingly with a snow shovel, I'll try shame. Yes, obnoxious. But then, I also was the one who called to have au untagged car towed from my neighbor's handicapped space that we'd shovelled out for her. So maybe it balances out.
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Dec 30, 2004 7:52:56 am PST #1565 of 10002
Lee - Dec 30, 2004 7:53:10 am PST #1566 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Welcome to the One True Faith, Lee. We're gaining converts daily. (And often, middle-of-the-nightly.)
I've long since been a believer, but after waking up with a migraine at 2:00 this morning, and having to drag myself in to work this morning anyway, I think it's fair to say I have been born again.
§ ita § - Dec 30, 2004 7:53:33 am PST #1567 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Snow reminds me yet again why I'm glad to be a renter with no car. I don't have to shovel anything!
Similar results can be achieved by living in LA, and you have the benefit of not risking frostbite to get places.
sarameg - Dec 30, 2004 7:55:08 am PST #1568 of 10002
Similar results can be achieved by living in LA,
But not in your garage, since it seems to like trapping its residents.
lisah - Dec 30, 2004 7:55:27 am PST #1569 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
But I shovelled out the!*&$*@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! spot! It took two hours! It is right in front of my house/apartment! Go shovel your own !*&$*@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! spot.
am so, so glad I have a parking pad now. Even if it would be nice to have a little yard to let the dog out in for his early morning business doin'.
Jesse - Dec 30, 2004 7:57:03 am PST #1570 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Similar results can be achieved by living in LA, and you have the benefit of not risking frostbite to get places.
Yeah, but then you have to live in LA. Which is fine for some people, I do understand.
(Beauty of different people being different: different places for different people.)
Calli - Dec 30, 2004 7:59:50 am PST #1571 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I've finished everything I had to do for today. Can I go home and read slashy OC fanfic now?
More to the point, do you think my manager would buy this as a reason to leave three and a half hours early? There's this show with these really cute guys who have the loveliest chemistry . . .
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 30, 2004 8:00:05 am PST #1572 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
But I shovelled out the!*&$*@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! spot! It took two hours! It is right in front of my house/apartment! Go shovel your own !*&$*@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! spot.
Solutions involving shovelling snow back and topping it off with a garden hose come to mind for me. I know from a former co-worker's travails that it is possible for an engine block to freeze to the ground and become effectively immovable for weeks if the conditions are just right.
§ ita § - Dec 30, 2004 8:01:27 am PST #1573 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Beauty of different people being different: different places for different people.
Nah, I still think diversity is a flawed idea.
But not in your garage, since it seems to like trapping its residents.
This is sadly true.
cathy - Dec 30, 2004 8:04:16 am PST #1574 of 10002
"Why do the facts hate America?" - Jon Stewart
I've long since been a believer, but after waking up with a migraine at 2:00 this morning, and having to drag myself in to work this morning anyway, I think it's fair to say I have been born again.
Me too with the migraine and having to work. Ugh.
I like the lawn chairs, etc rule in Chicago - If I spend an hour digging out a spot, sorry, but it's MINE. It's illegal, but even the mayor warns the citizenry every year not to move the furniture and park there, unless you like having your car rendered useless.