Average People are Lazy Too
I’ll skip the formal pleasantries, and get right into this. By the time I’ve posted a few things, you’ll know more about me than you probably would ever want to. (Sorry it’s taken me so long to post this… see my last paragraph!)
I approached the AWG about doing a guest post after the recent spate of snowfall in and around the Pittsburgh area. The backstory, for those of you that need it, is that we got about 8-10 inches of snow over a 36 or so hour period 2 weeks ago. (Officially we got 5 inches. WTF measures this stuff? Are they ever right? Who the hell lives at the airport? But I digress.) Mixed in with that snow, somewhere around inch 5, we had a few hours of freezing rain.
As you can imagine, it wasn’t a pretty picture travel wise last week. I actually did not go to work for 2 days. Alot of people around here didn’t go to work. I spent those 2 days shoveling and chipping, salting and digging out. You see, I have a steep driveway and a large parking pad at my house. At the end of the snow, my driveway was clear as could be, for both myself, my wife and anyone coming over to visit.
On to the crux of my tirade… I could not get over how many homes I drove by where nothing had been cleared at all! I mean not even a little bit. My neighbor, whose driveway is similar to mine, even a few days later spent 15 minutes trying to get out of his driveway. Mind you this man owns a snowblower and has two teenage sons. And his driveway looked like Mt. Rainier in December. I pray for his tranny and tires… The poor things never even had a chance.
It got me thinking about how shoveling here in Pittsburgh after a snowfall is a microcosm of what our society has finally finished becoming: lazy and inconsiderate. I was even spouting off about this to my carpool schmuck who doesn’t go to great lengths to mind his driveway and he even said… “Yup… I don’t want to shovel… Too bad if you can’t get in and out, cause I can!”
AND SO THIS BRINGS ME TO TODAY, almost a full 2 weeks after my initial draft of my virgin post. I would have posted this back when I first wrote it but I simply couldn’t come up with a nice, witty conclusion other than “Americans are freaking lazy.” Which I stand by even today, mind you.
The question is… Does that make me stoopid and unimaginative? Or maybe just *GASP*….
LAZY?
LAZY!?!?!
I’ll tell you lazy…
LAZY is whinning about being fat, when all it takes is 20 minutes a day on your $700 ellipitcal that is probably covered in so much dust it looks like it should have been in the recently discovered tomb of Jesus,
LAZY is putting off a cracked windshield in a $35000 car for 6 months until it resembles the San Andreas Fault when all it takes is a 5 minute phone call to the insurance agent,
LAZY is waiting until you get stuck in the barely covered driveway (that a 1986 rear wheel drive 5.0 convertible mustang can easily traverse) of a “carpool schmuck” to get some decent tires…
…so get off your “I shovel my driveway” soapbox and have some chicken and beer!!