So yesterday was the first real snow fall of the year. And in traditional fashion drivers all around Greater Boston freaked out and screwed up everyones commute. Happens every year on the first snow storm, no matter how little snow we actually get. Pretty standard play, been going on for decades so I'm told, but there's been a new wrinkle these past few years. 'Tards facebooking their status updates while stuck in the traffic jam.
You couldn't log on to facebook yesterday without seeing at least 3 or 4 updates of people bitching and moaning about how long its taking them to get home. Umm, hello? You don't think you're contributing to the problem as you update your status while stuck in traffic in the middle of a snow storm? Pretty sure you're not the model of safe and efficient driving in that case.
And this isn't to let off all the other captain obviouses who waited until they get home to update their status about how bad the drive was. I could understand if you were upset if you had somewhere to be or were missing out on something, but chances are your night was going to be pathetic anyway if the first thing you did when you got out of your car for the first time in 2 hours was rush to your computer to update your status. Pretty sure that microwaveable mac & cheese and DVR'd episode of CSI were still waiting for you when you finally got home.
And everyone's got that one friend that drives an absolute shit box (think something like a 98 Chevy Cavelier) that bitches about everyone driving slow even though the storms not that bad. Pipe down asshole, a strong gust of wind could cause your car to break down, you're lucky you even made it up the on ramp nevermind complaining about everyone else being cautious.
