Winter Driving in Calgary

Inconsiderate drivers are one thing (your car was built with a turn indicator – use it!), but inconsiderate winter drivers are just a bit more dangerous – read ‘dumb’.

After a snowstorm, how long do you think it would take you to clear the snow off your vehicle – no really, please time yourself. No, it doesn’t take 10 minutes. Try 2 or less.
I’ve seen idiots turn their windshield wipers on and think that that is enough to see – meanwhile the rest of the windows including the rear window are snow covered. Do you have x-ray vision to see through your back window when you’re backing up? How can you possibly see what’s around you? Oh, I forgot – you don’t care. Idiot.

That foot of snow that you left on the top of your car or monster truck… where do you think it goes… gently floating up into the air to be gathered by pixies? No! It gets blown onto the vehicle behind you, blinding the driver in a sudden blizzard. No, no, please continue your foolish habits in causing accidents that drive up insurance rates for everyone and cause endless irritation and lost productivity at work. What you are doing is such a great idea. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Do you not get how stupidly dangerous all this is – in your race to Starbucks to idle your vehicle in a lineup at the drive-thru where you will spend 3 to 5 times the amount of time it would have taken you to clean off your car?

I forgot. You’re part of the ‘I’ generation – entitled, thoughtless and self-centred. Please excuse me as you barge your way through life without regard for anyone else on the planet.