hermes wrote:EE at least its not on your car
or a 4 inch sheet of ice at the end of your driveway
I had my share as a kid growing up in Sweden. To make my own money while in school, I took a Saturday mailman gig which was a bicycle route in the most elevated terrain in my home town. It paid pretty ok but imagine a 14 mile bicycle route, loaded with mailbags, in -5 to -15 degrees Celsius and sideways snow/slush, up and down steep hills and on icy sidewalks. The sun didn't come up until around 9:30, at which point I was almost done with my route. I remember one Saturday in specific, we had enormous amounts of snow that week and it got very cold and almost storm conditions towards the weekend. -25C and heavy humid winds equalled -40C they said, and so the union wouldn't let me go out on my bike. I was dressed in fur hat and the whole bit and ready to go on my bike when they told me the union had got a cab to drive me around my route. Sweet surprise. Nowadays, just thinking of biking 14 miles in any terrain or weather makes me tired.
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