I call this image "My Idiot Neighbors"

"Pixel" (Improbcat) 01/04/2018 at 13:12 • Filed to: None

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The car in front has high-centered themselves pulling into the uncleared driveway. Meanwhile at the house behind them the wife is attempting to clear a jam in a running snowblower with a car brush while they bicker at each other.

CalzoneGolem > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 13:23

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Well ... At least they are using the brush and not a hand.

Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 13:24

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I grew up in Maine, but moved to Virginia years ago. I usually miss Maine, it’s home. I miss my family, the woods, open space, the people, hockey, ice skating outdoors (or at all /grumble), four distinct seasons.

Then I see pictures like this, remember shoveling from November until April most years, and don’t necessarily have the same nostalgia. Plus it’s fun watching the southern US collectively lose it’s shit at high temps below 20F, and any precipitation that doesn’t immediately melt on contact.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 13:28

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This looks to be very entertaining.

Azrek > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 13:28

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You can always tell those who aren’t used to this...white shit from the sky.

I refer to my story from last year

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/my-best-snowed-in-maryland-story-1755736383

WilliamsSW > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 13:29

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On the bright side, you’re getting some free entertainment out of this.

Downside is living by idiots the rest of the year.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 13:32

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i high centered my explorer on frozen plowed snow trying to get out onto a baseball field to do snownuts

Pixel > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/04/2018 at 13:32

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Car guy managed to tear his front bumper cover off getting out of the driveway. Then blocked the street trying to fix it before clearing the driveway enough to pull in.

I actually went.out and offered to help re-attach it once the storm passes.

Pixel > CalzoneGolem 01/04/2018 at 13:32

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Baby steps.

Pixel > WilliamsSW 01/04/2018 at 13:35

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Yep. The third act has just started. Two people walking to the gas station on the corner (such that they are walking straight into the wind) while one screams “I TOLD YOU! BUT YOU NEEDED CIGARETTES! I FUCKING TOLD YOU!” the the other.

Pixel > Azrek 01/04/2018 at 13:37

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This is Rhode Island. We get snowstorms every year. And somehow it is a surprise to them every year.

WilliamsSW > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 13:39

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LOL - true story, back at the beginning of January 1999, I drove to Walgreens during a storm that dropped 22" on Chicago.

Why? To buy condoms. Totally worth it.

Azrek > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 13:41

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I wish I had issues like that sometimes. Wake up and everyday is a new adventure and surprises. “Oh, water from the sky? Never saw that before!”

nerd_racing > WilliamsSW 01/04/2018 at 13:43

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no blizzard babies for you!

WilliamsSW > nerd_racing 01/04/2018 at 13:44

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Hell no!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 13:54

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I have a mazda 3 and generally I don’t drive it if there is more than 6-8" of fresh snow on the ground. It just won’t move very well being a relatively low clearance vehicle.

WilliamsSW > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/04/2018 at 14:51

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Hopefully you got some help - to get you off the road and onto the snownuts! ! !

Roundbadge > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 15:02

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January of 2014, I was home from work because I had pneumonia, and we’d just had another 6 inches of snow, so I was out shoveling so my gf could get in the driveway when she came home from work.

My neighbor across the street high-centered his Mazdaspeed 3 (on summer tires) because he refused to shovel, then got out and yelled at his car because he couldn’t get in the driveway. He finally decided it was time, and walked back to his garage and grabbed his shovel.

Coughing, tired, and freezing, I finally hollered over to him as he continued to yell at his car while shoveling, ”You need a hand?” I think he actually thought no one could hear him. “No...thanks...” came the reply. He didn’t say another word as I shoveled the apron into the street and the sidewalk.

He was probably out there digging his car out for another 20 minutes after I went inside to watch.

So Shiney. So Chrome! So Frunky > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 16:23

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Detroit has the same problems. First snow every year you see people who have slid into a ditch everywhere like they have never seen snow before

Dave the car guy , still here > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 17:47

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Can relate so much to this. About 10 years ago I had an attorney who lived across the street. He was a court appointed guy who was far from your TV image of a bright young lawyer. He hardly mowed his yard or cleared snow in winter. I would see him get stuck at the end of his drive at least one day a week when we had snow storms. In an unrelated but good illustration of his character I’ll tell another story about him. He bought a 2-3 year old Chrysler convertible one summer. He left the top down and it rained. That was in the fall. The top was left down through all the winter snow storms and into the spring. Somebody towed the car away in about May that year. I looked inside once at the leather that had mold and the algae floating on the water inside. Such a fool.

OPPOsaurus WRX > WilliamsSW 01/04/2018 at 20:07

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my friend and i were able to dig it out. we were pulling basketball size chunks of ice out from under it. we decided after it would be a good idea to relocate. I think that is also how I bent the drive shaft.

ranwhenparked > Pixel 01/04/2018 at 20:15

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That seems to happen everywhere that snow is a regular occurrence. I’ve lived in New York and Pennsylvania, and it seemed to take drivers a few snowfalls before they re-learned how to drive in it.

Scratch that, they never learned how to drive in it.

WilliamsSW > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/04/2018 at 22:31

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Ouch

OPPOsaurus WRX > WilliamsSW 01/05/2018 at 08:50

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yea, we had the truck in for service on something else and the service tech pointed it out to my father. He was a bit surprised and was like, yea, so howd that happened......

WilliamsSW > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/05/2018 at 09:22

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That’s when you just casually shrug your shoulders and say “IDK, that’s weird”. And try not to look guilty... :)

ateamfan42 > Pixel 01/05/2018 at 15:57

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This is Rhode Island. We get snowstorms every year. And somehow it is a surprise to them every year.

Even as far north as Maine, some people act all surprised each year when it snows.