Whatever the Weather

I am finally blogging about the rain and snow and ice now. I was too pissed off to actually write about it when it was a giant life-stopping snow storm (read: a mild Canadian winter) and the whole world was shutting down around me. As soon as it started snowing, I was at work and I let out a cheer at the same time that everyone let out a loud groan. I just assumed that these groans were from negative winter-haters who are general curmudgeons about snow in general. Actually, they were all very sane people who already knew what I had not discovered yet about winter in Scotland: no one knows what the fuck they are doing the minute it starts to snow. Seriously, the airport in Aberdeen shut down; THEY SHUT DOWN A WHOLE AIRPORT BECAUSE THERE WAS TWO INCHES OF SNOW. Now, as I stated before, I love the winter. And if you are from Alberta and love the winter that is saying a lot. But I have never, ever in my life experienced airports shutting down, half of an office not coming into work, and an extreme amount of car crashes (it’s called ice tires people!). To continue slightly with my snarkiness I am just going to say this: the absolute worst for me about this whole thing is that no one shovels their walkways. The sidewalks are completely covered in snow and ice and more snow and even more ice, so even if I don’t drive it is a death-defying journey to work because everyone expects the council to come out and shovel their sidewalk. Why? I am pretty sure in Calgary that you will be fined and everyone on the streets will hate you if you don’t shovel your sidewalk. Because you WILL be the only one to not shovel on the entire street. Kids would probably egg your house for being impolite.

Sorry, I’m so sorry, I know this is another rant. But really people! I avoided talking about it over Christmas break went things went crazy. And now it’s back, and for the first time in my life I don’t want it to snow. This makes me sad.