W.T.F. #1

Clean your car!!!

One of the things I've had to adjust to as a new immigrant to this fine country, is it's weather; and the related chores that are associated with it.

On the one hand, you never really worry about heat-stroke, and rarely have a need for sunscreen above 30+.  On the other, much more laborious side, you have snow removal.

Please know that I LOVE snow...

...when it's on a mountain and you're there to engage in the sport of alpine skiing.

In my new part of the world, even though there's a serious lack of mountains, it's really not too bad. 

We typically seem to get about a month or two of snowy-times, and even then, it's only really about a week and a half of the truly bad stuff.

In the city, there's no where to put it, and driving is utter hell.

In the small towns (like where we live) it's more a problem of 'when' (hopefully not 'if') you'll have your local road plowed so you can actually leave the house.

Yes it's a chore to remove from the driveway/roof/sidewalk/car, But it really gets to me when people don't do the bare minimum required to make things safe. 

Like for example, cleaning their car of the snow that has fallen on it.

I'm not talking about a light dusting. I'm talking shit like this.

Not my photo thankfully - as I'd most likely have flown into a rage at the thoughtless ding-bat that was driving. 

Clearly it's on the extreme end of the problem (almost to a point of hilarity), but the point still stands.

Lisa can confirm that this is one of the few things that 'really' gets me mad on the road.

When you're driving at highway speeds, and snow flies off the car in front of you - there's a real possibility of the situation becoming lethal - and I don't mean from road rage.

If you can't see out of your car, then how do you intend to be anything other than a dangerous nincompoop in control of 1+ tonnes of steel and glass (and plastic and sometimes aluminimum)?

So for the love of Cthulhu! Clean Your Fucking CAR!!!


This road safety announcement has been brought to you by - The association of little aussies that actually care about driving somewhere safely, and don't want to have to engage in emergency maneuvers on what is regularly regarded as one of the most deadly highways in canada, all because you're a thoughtless douche.