A bit of a rant.

We got clobbered with snow today.  It's over four feet I'd say outside our door.  The plow came through once this morning and then once more about an hour ago, and the pile it made on the side of the road has to be nearly six feet high.

Okay, so before this massive snow hit, we had about six or seven inches yesterday.  Our neighbor, recently back from Iraq, was out there shoveling his car out.  I made conversation with him like I usually do, and just tried not to show myself a complete heathenistic grump. 

Now here's the set up of our parking (or lack thereof).  We have two vehicles: our blue truck and our Corolla.  The truck is dead up in La Fargeville at Travis' work for mostly weather-related reasons.  So we just have the Corolla down here.  In our lease we were warned ahead of time that there was no parking provided since the landlord doesn't own any of the property around the building, but just the building itself.  I don't know who owns the grass on the one side of the building, but whoever it is, they don't seem to mind us parking all over and around it.  I guess since we are the newbies in the building, we get last picks at the parking.  The two spaces next to the building are apparently reserved for the upstairs tenents and the Post Master (we live in a building that houses a small post office, for those who don't know.)  That's fine, we were warned of that.  We can park in one of the two spaces next to the building on the grassy property as long as the post office is closed.  Again, no problem.  We were told we were the red-headed step children of the parking situation.  Normally we park in the street, which isn't much of an issue, except when the plows come through, and then we hear it from the Post Master who apparently is the all-wise King of Boot Jack Hill and Main Street, who has no problem telling us how to park, which direction we should face, how the plow guy is going to "yell at" us.  Yeesh.

Okay, so our neighbors had one car since we've lived here, and now that he's home they bought another one.  Okay, no problem.  That is completely understandable.  So he decided to make another space in the grassy area next to the building to accomodate this extra car.  Again, that's no problem, and is in fact great because that will afford us more opportunity to get our car out of the street when they aren't home and the Post Office is closed.

So anyway, back to this weekend.  I believe in being a courteous neighbor, and have no problem doing my share of snow shoveling for the common good of our dwelling.  Saturday, after the Post Office worker left and freed up one of the spaces, it snowed so hard that it wasn't really possible to park in it until we shoveled it out.  I went out to clean off and warm up the car, and stayed parked in the street.  This is when I was making pleasant conversation with our neighbor.  We left and when we got back, the snowed in space was still open, and our neighbors had left in the new car, leaving another space open.  We parked in that space, since it wasn't covered with snow.  However, being the courtesy-conscious person I am, I thought, "Hey, it would be pretty rude of me to take a space that he shoveled out all morning, and make him shovel out another one."  So I went and got my shovel and cleared out the space so he could park.  No biggie, ten minutes' work.

So here we are today.  We have nearly four feet of snow on the ground.  Their cars are in the two outside spaces, and ours is in the middle.  I stuck my head out there a few minutes ago, and saw that they shoveled two lanes for their cars and left a 15 ft row of snow in the middle of the driveway behind our car.  ?!?!?!?!?  If I had known they were out there shoveling, we would have gone and helped!!!!  But they didn't knock, and worst of all, I mean no courtesy, no thought that now I have to haul the snow to either side of their diggings out.  ARGH!!!!  I should pile it all right behind their cars.  But that wouldn't be very nice, would it?

You know what, I'm going to go take a picture.