In the category of pet peeves for which I may occasionally muster ire, would you people please clean the snow off...
In the category of pet peeves for which I may occasionally muster ire, would you people please clean the snow off the top of your car? I mean, 6" of snow makes it pretty obvious that there is snow on top of your car. Did you think the general whiteout conditions would conceal your personal whiteout? Or did you think you were only going to go someplace non-windy and the concept of airflow over a moving vehicle was too much for you? Because I'm pretty sure the concept of friction is too much for you, or you'd know that stuff was not staying on top of your car forever.
#grumblesmurf
#grumblesmurf
I don't usually clean off the top if there is less than an inch or two. 6 would definitely get cleaned off though.
ReplyDeleteI always clean it off, no matter how thin, because there will be someone driving a very short distance behind me.
ReplyDelete(And then there was that time when a friend of mine almost got killed by a sheet of ice flying off of a high SUV on the Beltway...)
Beltway traffic, Alistair. Someone will be behind me within blowing-snow distance even if they are thoughtful and not tailgating idiots. Not a matter of choice sometimes, especially not when merging/exiting.
ReplyDelete(And I say this as someone who habitually leaves four-car length distances under any weather.)
And in my friend's case... She probably wasn't tailgating either. Just, you know, big flat sheet of ice, aerodynamics, lift, you can imagine the physics. Unfortunately, the SUV driver couldn't.
Alistair Young Except for those times when it's still snow, but rips off in large chunks to an entire sheet?
ReplyDeletePeeve: Google has not yet seen fit to provide me a "-1" button.