Walking In A Winter Wonderland...

As the lovely snow continues to pile up, coating all the North Country sidewalks in feathery drifts, the rocket scientists out there are busy migrating from the sidewalks to the (unplowed) roadways in order to travel on foot from place to place.

Some of these brain trusts even are decked out in the latest fashion colors of Arctic Camo, or even better, Winter White.

I question whether the few calories they save by not wading through the drifts on the sidewalks (as opposed to the drifts in the streets) is worth the potential for adorning the windshield of a vehicle which is already struggling to navigate its way through town.

Although they build them larger here in the North Country, I have yet to see any locals that outweigh even a compact car, and in a collision, it is easy to tell who will "win". But when I am navigating through the streets in a vehicle, I deeply resent these individuals whose lack of fortitude puts me in a position of risk.

Is this another example of Darwin weeding out the herd and cleaning up the gene pool? Possibly, but I'd rather not be the instrument of someone's demise simply because they lack Common Sense.

Sidewalks are there for a reason, use them, regardless of whether or not they are shoveled!