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snow funnies
Feb. 22nd, 2005 06:21 pmthere's a guy named ezra dyer, who writes for the "improper bostonian" (one of our free local rags)... and he's really funny, i usually get a chuckle or two from his column... but this week's had me really howling. he talks about how everyone in the city sticks a cone or chair in the space they shovelled out after a snowstorm, as if it suddenly gives them ownership of a public space... there was actually a shooting here a few years ago, because someone parked in another person's shoveled-out spot. no lie:
First, let's deal with the issue of ownership, or, more accurately, conership. You're not shoveling a space out of a sense of civic duty. You're shoveling because there's three feet of snow on your car and you want to go somewhere. People are always quoted in newspaper articles saying stuff like, "I shoveled eight hours and I'm not having someone come along and take my space after I did all that work."
By this logic, only plows should be allowed on the roads after it snows, because everyone else is enjoying the fruits of the plow drivers' labor. Where do you get off driving on route 93 if you didn't plow anything? Next time it snows, I'm getting a plow truck and plowing the roads on my way to work, then I'm coning them off so I can have a nice quick drive on subsequent mornings. I plowed them, so they're my roads.
...At the other extreme, and making me meat out even worse, are the people who continue coning until the Major League Baseball All-Star break. If there's so much as a dirty ice cube from a spilled Big Gulp in the street in Southie, there's probably a cone sitting next to it.
First, let's deal with the issue of ownership, or, more accurately, conership. You're not shoveling a space out of a sense of civic duty. You're shoveling because there's three feet of snow on your car and you want to go somewhere. People are always quoted in newspaper articles saying stuff like, "I shoveled eight hours and I'm not having someone come along and take my space after I did all that work."
By this logic, only plows should be allowed on the roads after it snows, because everyone else is enjoying the fruits of the plow drivers' labor. Where do you get off driving on route 93 if you didn't plow anything? Next time it snows, I'm getting a plow truck and plowing the roads on my way to work, then I'm coning them off so I can have a nice quick drive on subsequent mornings. I plowed them, so they're my roads.
...At the other extreme, and making me meat out even worse, are the people who continue coning until the Major League Baseball All-Star break. If there's so much as a dirty ice cube from a spilled Big Gulp in the street in Southie, there's probably a cone sitting next to it.
