Tips for surviving the winter months
A few tips for winter survival.
Tip #1
Just because you are a pedestrian, does not mean you don't have to look before crossing the street in a crosswalk.
This tip is especially necessary in the winter months, but is most definitely not limited to the winter months. If I cannot see you and you suddenly throw yourself onto the street with your book bags and your Starbucks, there is a good chance that my car will not want to stop right away, and you will end up on the ground, covered in coffee, or dead. I promise you that, as a cautious winter driver, I will be going either the speed limit or slower, so I will try to slow down and stop for you, if I see you preparing to enter this crosswalk. But I need you to return the favor and make sure that there is no one coming. You are not the Queen of the Crosswalk. Just look before you walk. Just do it. Or die. Or be horribly mangled and incapacitated.
Tip #2
Don't just blindly jut around corners because you think no one is there.
Chances are, I am.
All right, so this one doesn't have to do with winter so much, but it is a pet peeve of mine, in general. I can't stand it when I'm walking down the right side of the hallway (as you do) when I go to turn a corner and nearly collide with someone who's sharply turning the same corner going full-speed-ahead.
First of all, you don't need to turn the corner so sharply. Cutting corners is not going to get you to your destination any faster, in fact, it may delay you even more, because you will probably run into and take out a certain Molly LeCaptain who will wind up in the hospital because you were holding your pencil out with its tip in the utmost stabbing position (without realizing it, I'm sure). I'm always afraid of that. Running into someone by accident who just happened to be holding a sharp object and being stabbed. How much would that suck?
Anyway, this has happened to me more than once (almost running into corner-cutters, not being stabbed...), so cut it out. Walk the hallways like a normal person. Unless all normal people walk the hallways like crazies. JUST DON'T CUT CORNERS OKAY THANKS.
Tip #3
In the wintertime, highways look like a Garden of Sedans. You don't want to be a flower in this garden.
Tip #4
Make use of really cool hotels if you can't drive home due to severe winter weather.
Especially if you work at one. Then it's just convenient. Like when you are driving home from Chicago in a blizzard and have to work the next morning so the hotel says "Come stay here" so you say "OK" and so you go to the hotel and spend the night in a sweet-ass room and all you have to do in the morning is wake up, get ready and go downstairs, and POOF you're at work!
This tip is pretty irrelevant to most people.
Tip #5
Don't delve right into hot chocolate, coffee, or other very hot beverages or foods.
I've lost way too many taste buds this way.
Tip #6
Have more tips in mind if you are going to write a blog about tips.
Yup...
Peace.
Molly
Tip #1
Just because you are a pedestrian, does not mean you don't have to look before crossing the street in a crosswalk.
This tip is especially necessary in the winter months, but is most definitely not limited to the winter months. If I cannot see you and you suddenly throw yourself onto the street with your book bags and your Starbucks, there is a good chance that my car will not want to stop right away, and you will end up on the ground, covered in coffee, or dead. I promise you that, as a cautious winter driver, I will be going either the speed limit or slower, so I will try to slow down and stop for you, if I see you preparing to enter this crosswalk. But I need you to return the favor and make sure that there is no one coming. You are not the Queen of the Crosswalk. Just look before you walk. Just do it. Or die. Or be horribly mangled and incapacitated.
Tip #2
Don't just blindly jut around corners because you think no one is there.
Chances are, I am.
All right, so this one doesn't have to do with winter so much, but it is a pet peeve of mine, in general. I can't stand it when I'm walking down the right side of the hallway (as you do) when I go to turn a corner and nearly collide with someone who's sharply turning the same corner going full-speed-ahead.
First of all, you don't need to turn the corner so sharply. Cutting corners is not going to get you to your destination any faster, in fact, it may delay you even more, because you will probably run into and take out a certain Molly LeCaptain who will wind up in the hospital because you were holding your pencil out with its tip in the utmost stabbing position (without realizing it, I'm sure). I'm always afraid of that. Running into someone by accident who just happened to be holding a sharp object and being stabbed. How much would that suck?
Anyway, this has happened to me more than once (almost running into corner-cutters, not being stabbed...), so cut it out. Walk the hallways like a normal person. Unless all normal people walk the hallways like crazies. JUST DON'T CUT CORNERS OKAY THANKS.
Tip #3
In the wintertime, highways look like a Garden of Sedans. You don't want to be a flower in this garden.
Don't be stupid drivers. Be safe. Enough said.
Tip #4
Make use of really cool hotels if you can't drive home due to severe winter weather.
Especially if you work at one. Then it's just convenient. Like when you are driving home from Chicago in a blizzard and have to work the next morning so the hotel says "Come stay here" so you say "OK" and so you go to the hotel and spend the night in a sweet-ass room and all you have to do in the morning is wake up, get ready and go downstairs, and POOF you're at work!
This tip is pretty irrelevant to most people.
Tip #5
Don't delve right into hot chocolate, coffee, or other very hot beverages or foods.
I've lost way too many taste buds this way.
Tip #6
Have more tips in mind if you are going to write a blog about tips.
Yup...
Peace.
Molly
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