Monday, 11 March 2013

Generic Snow Blog: March 2013


'Everyone needs to run out to their cars and get out whilst they can, because the pavement is FAR too slippery, so walking is ludicrous, and head to the nearest hill, but this has to be done at 5mph, y'know just to be 'safe', and abandon it halfway up, because you just can't quite make it. Gritters can't come out until at least 6am tomorrow morning, because coming out BEFORE the snow settled would have been ridiculous! Probably best to stop all the buses as well, but lets not close any of the shops, 'just in case' a customer comes in, which they will because clearly we're all going to be snowed in and starve to death if we don't immediately go to the nearest supermarket and bulk buy everything they have on the shelves and barricade ourselves in our homes, because we don't know how long this is going to take, who knows how long it'll be until the half an inch of snow outside melts...'


Today, the snow is falling once again and as usual everything has stopped. I'm happy to be home, because the need to abandon your car is horrible, especially for such a pointless trip! The likelihood is that most of us will be able to return to normality in the next few days, so the bulk buying of food is unnecessary, particularly when it's a week later and you still have 2 loaves of bread and 8 pints of milk that need to be used up by tomorrow. But  as ridiculously unprepared the UK is to deal with such an insignificant amount of snow, this gives us a great opportunity to sit back and breathe. I get stressed easily, and when I get stressed I get insomnia and become so unproductive it's painful. So tonight, instead of having a ridiculously busy evening comprised of various events, I'm going to sit back, have a proper dinner, and catch up with some work. Then perhaps I'll actually get a proper nights sleep


It's so easy to get wrapped up in everything that's going on as an individual, it's humbling to see how little control we actually do have when something like this happens,


XOX

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