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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2005-02-01 10:17 am

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Most of the time I love The City, and I can't imagine living away from its conveniences.

Sometimes (like right now) the presence of other people makes me feel like I'm going insane. The behavior of motorists in particular may cause me to snap. Minivan lady thinks that its okay to run the red light, just this once, to get into line at another red light. I never say anything clever when this happens (all the time, in my neighborhood), but I do say it loudly. This time I simply uttered the name of the Lord, giving him a new middle name with the initial 'F.' Hopefully the experience for minivan lady was at least memorable.

The snow is still everywhere, great whalesized heaps of it obscuring lines of sight, reducing sidewalk use to single file and changing two-lane streets into one and a third land streets (which are still used as though they are two lanes). My humanism and environmentalism are suffering. Either forceably sterilize everyone or dump all this snow--sooty and salty as it is--into the harbor. Or dump all the cars in the harbor, either way.

Now I'm going to go grocery shopping, with my bike trailer. Wish me luck.

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
No bolts of lightning, though. Which in KS does happen during snowstorms.

They happen here too - it's apocalyptic.

[identity profile] urbpan.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
As Lewis Black said (of a Boston snow-and-lightning storm), "There isn't weather like that in The Bible!"

[identity profile] wakarusa.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah! that horrified sense of "this can't be happening!!" - at the same time that it very clearly IS.