Strange drive clearing behaviour
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PBancroft
Senior Member
- Location
- Winchester
My parents' neighbour hoover their drive. They also wash and polish their cars daily (or should I say nightly, because its usually after dark) whatever the weather
Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
I passed a bloke today who was clearing his drive and the pavement near his drive and he was shovelling the snow into the middle of the road. Don't know why he didn't pile it up on his lawn.
Lardyboy
New Member
- Location
- Still Somewhere In Wales.
There's no accounting for other peoples weird behaviour where cars and driveways are concerned. Especially after its snowed. 
upsidedown
Waiting for the great leap forward
- Location
- The middle bit
On my way home yesterday it was throwing it down with snow and they were all out sweeping and scraping. They're the same people who use leaf blowers in October.
Man's need to instill order in the world. My neighbour spent about an hour clearing two tracks for his car this morning, then drove to get a paper from the shop that you can see from the drive.
Man's need to instill order in the world. My neighbour spent about an hour clearing two tracks for his car this morning, then drove to get a paper from the shop that you can see from the drive.
Globalti
Legendary Member
Yep; they're all at it round here as well. It seems to be older people - my MIL is worried sick about snow and for some reason about running out of bread. It must date from the war or maybe from 1963.
One good thing is that I've never seen so many people out walking to the shops, our street is a thoroughfare to the local shops and has a slope at each end so we've been out sledging and have got into some great conversations with neighbours.
One good thing is that I've never seen so many people out walking to the shops, our street is a thoroughfare to the local shops and has a slope at each end so we've been out sledging and have got into some great conversations with neighbours.
User76 said:I was walking back from Cheddar City Centre, and one of the guys we passed was clearing his car and drive completely of snow. I gave a cheery hello, and mentioned that the roads around the village were dreadful. "Oh I know, theres no way I'm driving anywhere today" he says. Why clear the drive and car then
I'm not sure it is weird. That was religiously what people did until winter 1996/7 even though in today's risk averse world you could argue there was little big benefit. Everybody cleared their drive and a tiny area around it with some of the footpaths and if you were really lucky they'd gang together and clear really bad areas like corners and where gradients kick up in a team.
This is the same behaviour that survives in a few toady just that as lazy bastardism has gripped the UK in the last ten years there isn't a great deal of point clearing the road because nobody else does.
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
Rigid Raider said:
Our road is the main road into Ross from the big housing estate and the school at the top of the hill. Normally, I'm woken up around 9 by the sheer volume of traffic going up and down the hill. Today I was woken by the silence. It was really nice, especially as almost everyone walking past had a sledge and a toddler in small wellies.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
I've just cleared the path and drive ready for the morning as it looks like we're getting no more snow. Just went and called on my neighbours (as they're a bit older!) to see if they want their path cleared and the ungrateful bastards had already done it themselves.
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
I might nip out and clear the pavement outside our house later. Although these days, that's probably some kind of admission of liability should anyone slip and break an eyelash, or something.
