Keller @ Large: Show Your Best Mid-Winter Manners
BOSTON (CBS) - That is quite a bit of snow on the ground around here, and despite best efforts to clean it up, we are going to be inconvenienced by it for awhile.
All the more reason why we need to be sporting our best mid-winter manners, showing consideration for one another and for public safety.
This should be second nature for us by now, but it's clear that there are some desperately in need of a refresher course.
I'm thinking of you, the middle-aged man behind the wheel of a fancy sedan I saw three days after last week's blizzard who still hadn't bothered to even touch the two-foot high load of snow and ice atop his vehicle. Regular readers know that I have talked about this problem many times before, and please don't send me angry e-mails about how elderly or disabled people may struggle to get that chore done, I get that.
But this guy looked able-bodied, or at least capable of getting someone to help him knock the snow off the roof. Instead, he's happy to have it fly off without warning onto or even through your windshield, perhaps at high speed.
That's unacceptable.
And then there was the young woman I saw on Saturday, hours after Friday night's light, fluffy flurries had ended, who couldn't manage to clear them from her windshield, but instead was peering through a baseball-sized hole in the snow cover that looked like it had been cleared by a pigeon.
I could also go off on those who have not even touched their sidewalks yet, but you get the point.
Times like these are a test of our basic human decency, and some of us are in danger of flunking.
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