Fiddlesticks

[CB]

In unsurprising news, winter is hitting hard (neat!) and tomorrow's 150 km round trip for groceries looks like it may have to be postponed for a day or two. As someone who routinely deals with people who don't prepare for conditions, I really don't want to get caught out in it. Can't wait to live in a town with a grocery store again some day!

Also, friendly reminder that if you're a moron who does something dumb in a storm and gets stuck, first responders will make fun of you and, while they won't say it, they will hate your guts for making them leave the office in a storm.

[Chariotoflove]

@cb
Just order your groceries through Amazon instead. Then, complain bitterly when they don't arrive in time through the blizzard.

[CB]

@chariotoflove Everything about that sentence pains me.

[ForSweden]

@cb do you not have Amazon in Canada

EDIT: what CoL said

[CB]

@forsweden said in Fiddlesticks:

@cb do you not have Amazon in Canada

EDIT: what CoL said

How about you live in a rural community where the fastest delivery from the city is two or three days.

Also I will not be giving Bezos more of my money to waste.

[WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4]

Growing up in northern Minnesota, me and my buddies used to drive around in snowstorms and pull people out of the ditch. It was fun for us, but I can understand being pissed if you were forced to do it.

[ForSweden]

@cb said in Fiddlesticks:

How about you live in a rural community where the fastest delivery from the city is two or three days.

Last time I did this we had snomobiles

[CB]

@wasgtithengtothennovathengtinowa4 said in Fiddlesticks:

Growing up in northern Minnesota, me and my buddies used to drive around in snowstorms and pull people out of the ditch. It was fun for us, but I can understand being pissed if you were forced to do it.

Last winter I was forced out of bed because some chucklefuck poor individual drove into a ditch during a snowstorm. Went to check it out because I thought they could be drunk (they weren't, apparently their judgement is always poor) and called them a tow. Because, when stuck in a vehicle at four in the morning, the best thing to do is to mess around on your phone instead of Googling "tow truck near me".

If people were smart, I wouldn't have a job.

[WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4]

@cb If people were smart, most of us wouldn't.

[ibRAD]

@cb Why didn't they just call a tow on their own?

[Milky]

@wasgtithengtothennovathengtinowa4 When I went to community college (which somehow was more in the country then the town I lived in) I used to pull kids out of the ditch on the way to class. As long as I had a cell phone pic to show the teacher she was cool with me being late.

[CB]

@ibrad said in Fiddlesticks:

@cb Why didn't they just call a tow on their own?

Once again, we've trained people to call a three digit number when they run out of ideas on what to do.

It turns out some people have less ideas than others. Other people just don't function when confronted with a problem they can't walk away from.

[ForSweden]

@ibrad said in Fiddlesticks:

Why didn't they just call a tow on their own?

The tow truck gets stuck. Then the tow truck called by the two truck gets stuck. This repeats until every vehicle in the universe is on the road and the road collapses into a black hole.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@cb It's so bad in BC right now. This was taken from a white crown vic this morning in Richmond .

[ibRAD]

@cb

[CB]

@carsoffortlangley said in Fiddlesticks:

@cb It's so bad in BC right now. This is taken from a white crown vic this morning in Richmond.

Fuck dude, I heard. You guys stay safe out there.

[ForSweden]

@carsoffortlangley that's just snow in liquid form

[Smallbear]

@cb I would like to know how many winter (heck, heavy rain too) accidents cruise control actually causes. My guess is many.

[aremmes]

@cb

refrain from travelling on the highways

So travelling on the grid roads during the storm is OK, then?

[CB]

@aremmes said in Fiddlesticks:

@cb

refrain from travelling on the highways

So travelling on the grid roads during the storm is OK, then?

As per the Traffic Safety Act, Section (2)(k):

“highway” means a road, parkway, driveway, square or place designed and intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles, but does not include any area, whether privately or publicly owned, that is primarily intended to be used for the parking of vehicles and the necessary passageways on that area

A grid road, legally speaking, is a highway.

[aremmes]

@forsweden said in Fiddlesticks:

@ibrad said in Fiddlesticks:

Why didn't they just call a tow on their own?

The tow truck gets stuck. Then the tow truck called by the two truck gets stuck. This repeats until every vehicle in the universe is on the road and the road collapses into a black hole.

Either that or they form a tow truck centipede.

[Highlander]

@cb the storm just hit us in western Montana. It’s a black wall of rain with high winds. Should be fun! Let know if you need anybody to throw some dinner rolls over the border.

[Chariotoflove]

@cb said in Fiddlesticks:

@chariotoflove Everything about that sentence pains me.

Then I did it right.

[BaconSandwich]

Current weather in Lethbridge:
Not quite windy enough to shake the house much. Yet.