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April 5, 2003
Have Plow, Will Travel
It appears that arriving a whole hour early to the train station is not sufficient time to secure a ticket to Kitchener. So I missed the Maple Syrup Festival. No boiled tree sugar for me. Luckily Ang braved the newly-plowed roads and came here.
Speaking of newly-plowed things, here's a few tips for drivers who are obviously unaccustomed to driving in Canada's April Winter conditions (this seems to include everyone in my neighbourhood):
- Please scrape off your car windows. Yes, that includes the back one. I sick of being cut off by drivers who thought that the rear defrost was good enough.
- If you're in a van or truck, please don't forget to remove the sheet ice from your roof/flatbed. Today I saw a square metre of ice fly off some guy's van roof and do a few flips in the air before smashing on the road behind him. Luckily there was no car there to intercept it.
- If the plows haven't come yet, please please please don't park on the road. Some guy parked in front of our house, causing the plow to go around him and create a pile of snow on the street in front of our house. Every day since, I've seen someone get stuck on it.
- Just because the roads are plowed, it doesn't mean you can speed.
If you can do these few things for me, then my final memories of Canadian winters won't be filled with hate towards my fellow man.