f snowy sidewalks. I quoted Edmund Burke and told her that “No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little,” but she wasn’t convinced. She said it was a nice gesture but it wouldn’t make any difference. Anyways, I still thought I did a good job and wanted to go and take another look. I peeked out the window just in time to see someone walking his dog down the sidewalk except… rather than take advantage of my freshly cleared and salted, totally ice-free stretch of sidewalk, he went around. He went around! He actually went out of his way just so he could walk over more snow and ice because for some crazy reason, that’s preferable to walking on solid concrete (it’s not icy, I checked). What’s with this guy? The only explanation I can think of is that his life is somehow so dull that he needs the constant threat of slipping and breaking his neck to make it more interesting. Go for it dude.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
A Waste of Effort?
After walking home two miles through the snow today after school (not just a cliché), I immediately set to work shoveling the sidewalk in front of my house. I did a good job and was especially proud because it was apparently a chore very few in the neighborhood had bothered to do. When my wife got home later on, she said it was pointless that I had even bothered shoveling because hardly anybody else had and it wouldn’t matter much set against miles o
f snowy sidewalks. I quoted Edmund Burke and told her that “No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little,” but she wasn’t convinced. She said it was a nice gesture but it wouldn’t make any difference. Anyways, I still thought I did a good job and wanted to go and take another look. I peeked out the window just in time to see someone walking his dog down the sidewalk except… rather than take advantage of my freshly cleared and salted, totally ice-free stretch of sidewalk, he went around. He went around! He actually went out of his way just so he could walk over more snow and ice because for some crazy reason, that’s preferable to walking on solid concrete (it’s not icy, I checked). What’s with this guy? The only explanation I can think of is that his life is somehow so dull that he needs the constant threat of slipping and breaking his neck to make it more interesting. Go for it dude.
f snowy sidewalks. I quoted Edmund Burke and told her that “No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little,” but she wasn’t convinced. She said it was a nice gesture but it wouldn’t make any difference. Anyways, I still thought I did a good job and wanted to go and take another look. I peeked out the window just in time to see someone walking his dog down the sidewalk except… rather than take advantage of my freshly cleared and salted, totally ice-free stretch of sidewalk, he went around. He went around! He actually went out of his way just so he could walk over more snow and ice because for some crazy reason, that’s preferable to walking on solid concrete (it’s not icy, I checked). What’s with this guy? The only explanation I can think of is that his life is somehow so dull that he needs the constant threat of slipping and breaking his neck to make it more interesting. Go for it dude.
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