Rick’s Rants and Raves

My new pet peeve: People who shovel their drives, but not their sidewalks. We got a record amount of snow this past weekend, and I understand that some people are simply not capable of shoveling at all. We live in a wonderful neighborhood where people actually walk on the sidewalks. There are three schools within 10 minutes walking distance of my house, and dozens of kids (maybe hundreds) from kindergarten to high school walk down our street every school day. Some people shoveled their drives so that THEY could get their cars out, but couldn’t be BOTHERED to shovel their sidewalks. This creates a dangerous situation for the kids trying to walk to school as they are forced to walk in the street, rather than through the 15 inches of snow on the sidewalk. That, to me, is incredibly selfish.

Kudos to the residents of Blue Ash: the entire length of Blue Ash was shoveled (on one side) for a whole block. We walked to the Y down Blue Ash late Sunday evening, and had to divert to the street for the one segment of sidewalk that hadn’t been shoveled. Fortunately, the owner was on his front porch, and took notice. By the time we returned from exercising, his walk was shoveled. Well done, sir.