Negril Notes

Clean off your Damned Roof!!

February 13, 2006

OK, spare me the global warming crap for at least a few weeks, alright!

18 Inches of snow Feb 12, 2006

Wow, 18″ of snow in Philly! Right before I went out to shovel I stopped by the Real Negril website to visit the Sunday Brunch Webcast from Selina’s. It was sunny, eighty degrees with a cooling breeze. April soon come!

It wasn’t too bad shoveling. My downstairs neighbor bought a snow blower last year and handled most of the heavy lifting, but I was still out there for the better part of two hours.

After shoveling I took a walk to the 7-11 to see how bad things were. My street still wasn’t plowed, so I had to trudge through knee deep snow.

I live right off a main road, Rt. 611, and I walked on the plowed part. Before I got twenty yards some clown driving a big stupid SUV roared past me doing about forty five miles an hour. As he blew thru the yellow light expecting his four wheel drive to make up for his obvious lack of sense, off the roof came a huge sheet of snow.

Clean off your damned roof! Butthead!!

Please don’t just clear a peep hole in the center of your driver side windshield! Do you know what happens when you don’t clear your roof? It falls off when I’m driving behind you, it never fails! Common courtesy seems to be less common, in this “I’m the center of the universe” world we seem to have created.

I’m a roof cleaner, I’m also a cart returner and a hose roller. Yeah, don’t leave your shopping cart precariously balanced on a parking lot ridge where the slightest vibration sends it straight for my car. Now my car is a piece of crap, so I mainly write this for others, what can I say, I have a big heart.

What’s a hose roller? Have you ever had to put air in your tire and the hose is laying in mud or where every passing car runs over the now non-working nozzle? I roll up the hose and hang it on the litle arm usually provided. My gift to you.

I hope everyone got dug out today, and take a few moments to clear your roof. I’ll be driving on the NJ and PA Turnpikes tomorrow and if I flip you the bird, you’ve been warned!