The car rules OK !
Please believe me it really does rule us , we are now a
subservient race all in thrall to the combustion engine that takes us from A to
B then from B to C etc etc…
I actually came to this conclusion the other week when it
snowed for a couple of days dropping more than six inches of the white stuff
all over the country and basically the only thing that seemed to bother, annoy
and stress people out was the fact that it was too dangerous to drive, the
gritting situation on the roads and whether god forbid they might have to leave
their precious car in their drive or parked outside their home. When it snows I
get a train to work, I walk to the shops, I realise that some inconveniences
will happen and when the ice and snow disappears I can use the car again. I
have never moved to a remote area
because you are likely to be stranded in bad weather or have to purchase one of
those monstrous 4x4’s that dominate the town & countryside therefore when
it snows you should have take this into consideration when you decided to move there.
Now I wanted to clear my front path and the pavement both for my
house and our neighbours after the snow had fallen. I had my snow shovel and the
bag of grit I had previously bought in case the snow came so out I went and
started to shovel the snow but I couldn’t really move it anywhere else because
everywhere I looked there was a car parked taking up all the road space and
some of the pavement areas too. The local council had gritted the main roads
but no minor roads like ours so I put my grit down for the car drivers and
moved the snow as much as I could. I then thought I would walk down into the
town centre for some food, of course the council weren’t interested in gritting
any pavements so it was treacherous to the extreme and if you were elderly you
would not have been able to leave your house BUT for the car owner everything
was fine, no ice, no snow, their little piece of the world was gritted because
the car rules in this country and pedestrians obviously don’t, we just fall
over, break bones and suffer…………………………
Enjoy
