Rant - Snow

I am a Canadian and I hate snow.  In fact, I think most Canadians hate snow.  I don't know anyone who actually looks forward to more than the first snowfall of the year. lol

Either way, I hate it.

And not so much the cold part of it all, that I could deal with.  But it's the annoyances that come with snow that I can't handle.

Shovelling - now that I'm an assistant resident manager of my 2 buildings of apartments, I have to shovel the entranceways.  That's no big deal except the resident managers don't help.  Rhem requested that they take care of their building and we'll take care of ours but I haven't seen it happen yet.  We're still shovelling all 5 entranceways.  Bleck.

Snowplows - the city snowplows are pretty sucky.  They don't put the blade all the way down so as to not ruin the roads... However this leaves a couple inches thick of snow & ice build up.  Ice build up = sliding = accidents = more money in insurance brokers' pockets.  That and the fact that where I'm in an apartment building the road plow will go by and plow the road decently but our apartment plow guy won't come until shortly before 8am, not caring for the fact that maybe some people work at 8am and have to *get* to work.  Twice I've shovelled from my car to the road.  This is no small task, I assure you. And my back is paying the price for it!

Bad Drivers - our city is well known for their bad drivers.  However, it seems that in the wintertime it doubles.  People don't know how to slow down, how to start braking early, how to inch their way out of roads where the banks are too high and you can't see... I'm constantly jamming on my brakes and swerving to avoid bad drivers and some day I'm worried that I won't think fast enough and end up in an accident -_-

Wet Feet - in order to get to the kitchen from the living room I have to pass the entranceway for my apartment.  And vice versa to go to the living room.  I think I'm the only one that knows how to use the shoe rack so that if my shoes drip from melting snow, it will drip onto the floor underneath the shoe rack.  But everyone else leaves their shoes right in front of the shoe rack.  Right in the path I need to walk through to get anywhere.  Which normally wouldn't be a problem except snow on shoes melt and then I end up walking through it and getting my feet wet and dirty.  I've mopped the area countless times but it never seems to stop more snow water from showing up.

Bleck.  Winter.  Go away for a few months, eh?