Milwaukee, WI

It is only December 5, and already all of Milwaukee is sick and tired of snow. Saturday’s snow was messy, the ice that followed was problematic, and this week’s snow is light and fluffy but there’s just so much of it that we are all already overwhelmed. When you top all of this off with some mediocre plowing efforts by the City, it means we’re all hoping for spring already.

But does it mean that common courtesy has to go out the window?

My night consisted of being awoken at 2:00 a.m. by the bar crowd finding out the hard way that their cars were stuck on the street for the night. 4:00 a.m. brought the snowblower across the street (I can understand one or two pass-throughs with the snowblower, but five? Come on…). 6:00 a.m. brought tire spinning from a white pickup that had gotten stuck on the street in front of my house. By 6:45 the pickup had moved off of the street and onto my lawn where it spun its tires while its driver swore loudly. By 7:30 I was out shoveling and watching the pickup make a mess of my lawn. The cursing driver had been joined by two of his equally loud friends.

No one likes all of this snow. No one likes having to dig their cars out. No one likes the parking restrictions. No one likes getting stuck on the way to work. But on the other hand, no one likes their lawn torn up without so much as an apology. No one likes hearing a snowblower for a full hour at four in the morning. No one likes to hear the drunk drivers spinning the tires of their (thankfully) stuck cars after bar closing.

Can’t we have a little courtesy this time of year?

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On a more fun note, check out Rena Sherwood’s cute blog on Christmas Muzak Headaches.