Al on the Today Show

[medpedspouse]

Did anyone catch what Al said today. I was not watching - just listening while getting ready. He was talking about the weather where his sister lives. He said something about his sister having to shovel the snow because her husband won't doing it....because he is a fancy doctor.

Did I hear correctly? If so, LOL....

[SuzySunshine]

I didn't see it but should we be surprised?

I do most of our shoveling b/c DH doesn't have time before he leaves at 4:30am and he's usually home after dark. If I can get out of my driveway in the morning I'll drive over it but I shovel/snow blow when I get home.

[Stella]

Shovel snow? I've never even used a lawnmower. No way.

[alison]

My dh would NEVER shovel snow. He did as a kid, but there's no way in hell that he'd do it, fancy doctor or not.

[SuzySunshine]

My dh would NEVER shovel snow. He did as a kid, but there's no way in hell that he'd do it, fancy doctor or not.

What do you do when it snows??

yeah I heard it too

[Momo]

DH and I refuse to shovel snow here!! LOL! That is unless there's a freak storm in the middle of aug!

DH hates shoveling snow, and I actually love doing it. It was an hour of pure bliss last night- shoveling snow that is :P . I don't know why I like it so much, but I do. I round off the edges of our sidewalk, driveway, and porch so that they look especially nice. It is amazing how a good shovel-job makes the house look great.

Man, do I need to get a life, or what???????

[Stella]

DH hates shoveling snow, and I actually love doing it. It was an hour of pure bliss last night- shoveling snow that is :P . I don't know why I like it so much, but I do. I round off the edges of our sidewalk, driveway, and porch so that they look especially nice. It is amazing how a good shovel-job makes the house look great.

Man, do I need to get a life, or what???????

Apparently, yes.

[mommax3]

This is beginning to be an issue here. (Obviously, it wasn't during the eight years we spent in TX. ) Since we moved back to IN, there have been very few occasions that we needed to shovel.....it snowed twice last year, and what we are getting today is our second snow this year. However, the first snow that we got (which was never shoveled) is still there, and we are getting snow and ice on top of that today. I was trying to get DH to go get a snow blower yesterday afternoon, since he was off, but he was too tired. He doesn't get home before it is dark, so I guess the answer for us (for now) is that we don't shovel. The yard nazis on our cul-de-sac turn into shoveling nazis when there is snow, and I am sure they in the direction of our house, but whatever. Luke is almost old enough to shovel, but we really have a pretty long driveway, and today's snow is the heavy, wet kind. I *refuse* to kill myself shoveling when DH can do it and barely break a sweat. His attitude is "It'll melt" and we just barrel over it in our big vehicles.

Sally

His attitude is "It'll melt" and we just barrel over it in our big vehicles.

Sally

That is my dh as well. And you described my neighborhood pretty well too. The pregnant woman 4 doors down was shoveling during the last snow. My sweet neighbor has been known to snow-blow for me on occasion b/c he knows that dh won't really do any "manual labor" (except that which he likes). Today I'm going to pay the neighbor kid.

[Sheherezade]

My fancy doctor doesn't shovel either. He thinks he does. He'd tell you he does. He's proud of his ability to do manual labor.....he's just never around to do it.

So, who is? Can you guess?

:anyolne:

Yep. I'm the shovel-ess. I'm bad at it and I'm sure the neighbors are constantly wondering why I don't just hire help with our gobs of cash.

[fluffhead]

I love shoveling too - though I'd never get it done in time for DW to leave, and can't bring the baby outside, so now we have a plow come, and I only do the walk. I feel like such a wimp.

[SuzySunshine]

For those of you that don't shovel - can't you get fined for not shoveling your sidewalks within a certain time frame. Maybe you don't have a sidewalk in a culdesac but here if you don't shovel your walk within 24 hours of a snow and someone complains they can, and will, fine you.

DH and I learned the hard way that it is 10 times easier to shovel right after it snows then to let it build on top of it.

[Sheherezade]

No laws or fines here. We live in on a busy village street and about 2/3 of the houses shovel. Traffic on the sidewalk usually cuts a path in.

It pisses me off that the businesses don't do it. They have landscaping crews in the spring, but don't shovel the sidewalks in front of the strip mall or little shops.

In Boston, you would get ticketed in our area by the city after 24 hours. The city also drove a little plow down the major street sidewalks....so if you could wait just long enough you'd get lucky and have it done for you. :>