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I had a boss (a real obnoxious idiot) in Vancouver, Twila. He was always giving us a hard time about our weather and so on. We were out here for a meeting once and it snowed...maybe two cms of slush. He picked us at the hotel in his mini-van. There were six of us plus him in the van.

I said, "Are you sure it's okay to drive in this?" which made everybody laugh but my boss. It was a pretty poorly kept secret that I wanted out of my job by then.

He said, "This mini-van is all wheel drive." Then he slid into a curb, bent the rim and got a flat.

   

we live in canada, you'd think people know how to drive in the snow by now, but it's always amazing how there's so many people in the ditch after just a light snowfall.

Even yesterday, after it had been kind of warm so everything was starting to melt and then it froze over, so it's like a skating a rink on the streets, some jackass is going 80 through a yield and rear-ends me. Bumber's a total gonner ad he tries to pay me off with $100. Holy shit some people are idiots.

   

You didn't remind him that it doesn't matter what type of "wheel drive" your in, it's the idiot behind the wheel that's the problem?




And this is the reason I take public transit after it snows here. I have no snow driving skills. I've been forced to drive in the snow a couple of times and inevitably there's some idiot that thinks his 4x4 is all powerfull. Somebody really ought to tell them that their 4x4 stops just as well as my little mazda front wheel drive in the snow.

   

I just gor off the Perimeter Highway. It's drifting pretty badly in some places, but nothing that should be a real problem. 4 vehicles in the ditch...3 SUVs and 1 mini-van.

On the bright side I just brought home what's is likely my next vehicle. A 1982 Dodge pick-up. Slant 6, 4 spd std, 2wd. It's pretty under-powered, but I quit trying to be Mario Andretti a long time ago. My bro-in-law got it from work. It has just over 100,000 kms on it, no real rust, and has only been winter driven for the last years...and not often then. It's safetied and seems fairly nice to drive. It will need a clutch in the next year or two, but that's no big deal. I'll decide for sure tomorrow, but right now it's all looking pretty positive. How can you go wrong for $1200?

   

   

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