Having trouble with the snow here too. Here's a short list of ways the snow has annoyed me lately:
- My co-worker throwing a snowball at me when I'm carrying a pool table to a customer's car.
- Tripping up on the ice and smashing my arm to hell.
- My shoes not being waterproof so my feet are wet when I'm at work after walking there in the snow.
- Oh, and the small matter of the electrics being on the fritz. The snow's fucking up the grid nearby so most nights we're left completely without power for hours. So I'm missing out on hot food, washing my uniform (by the time the power comes on there's not enough time to dry it before morning), net access only in short bursts when the power is on (like now) and of course no relaxation between shifts at work, leaving me extremely short tempered and snapping at my colleagues. Notably the footwear supervisor, who isn't even my actual supervisor because I'm not in his department, who pissed me off so much today that I told him to go fuck himself with a burning cactus. Might have been a bit more tactful had it been said in the stock room as opposed to say, in front of the two regional managers who were conducting an inspection today. What can I say, except 'whoops'?
And Proto, if you think a street having a snowball fight is odd, try my old school. Every year there were two big battles. One at Christmas when we all had a snowball fight, and again on the last day of term in the summer when we had a water fight. Pretty much everyone at school would join in for both events, including the teachers, for an epic pitched battle across the entire school. You had people forming squads and everything. One kid even climbed on top of the French building and starting picking off the year 7's with what was basically a water pistol equivalent of a sniper rifle.