Driving and the snow

SLITHER99

So, as you can see it's started snowing a little. This is normally terrible news as us Southern fairies are not accustomed to such events. This will inevitably lead to widespread panic amongst Kia owners and a proportional increase in BMW-drivers' confidence and 4x4 drivers' smugness.

However, I feel we could all use some good tips with regards driving and the snow. Namely, how do we shut these people up who wish to discuss the weather at you in the office in great depth and, furthermore, how can you best avoid getting into a conversation about how to drive in the snow, which is usually prefaced with their analysis of what the roads will be like?

All you wanted was a coffee, but now you're in a conversation, with predictions from everything from black ice to pensioners impaled on zimerframes through to cyclists opting attach huskies to their skatebikes and possibly some sort of plague?

Really, it's 9am and I've already had to endure three seperate conversations!

agrinnall

Wear a big furry hat with ear flaps to block your hearing and dark ski goggles so that people can't see your eyes, then just ignore everyone until you've at least had your first cup of coffee! Or work from home, claiming you couldn't get in because of the awful conditions.

mac2008

Try some German tactics -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10333211

gilbert_and_sullivan

Take flask of coffee to avoid the scrum at the machine, stick a pair of earphones on connected to nothing at all, do not let your eyes waver from and concentrate on the route to your place/desk of work.

Its a half inch of snow at worse for crying out loud, you'd think it had been 2 feet deep requiring Herculean efforts of determination and bravery and only the fittest surviving.

GolfBravo

Work from home.

DUTR

GolfBravo wrote: »

Work from home.

What?!
Suppose the readers ob is on a production line?
Or counter assitant at a bank, etc

arcon5

Anyone see the irony ? -

redux

This can even be international in scope

I once drove through a load of snow on a Belgian motorway to arrive late at my hotel near Stuttgart in Germany. At the works I was visiting the next morning, someone told me he had heard the weather was very bad in Britain. I said it's not as bad as here or Belgium, but we're just better at complaining about it.

daveyjp

DUTR wrote: »

What?!
Suppose the readers ob is on a production line?
Or counter assitant at a bank, etc

There are many who can't, but similarly there are millions who could.

How many workers struggle to get to an office and then spend all day sitting in front of a screen undertaking tasks which can be done in front of a computer anywhere?

Yolina

SLITHER99 wrote: »

This is normally terrible news as us Southern fairies are not accustomed to such events. [...] Namely, how do we shut these people up who wish to discuss the weather at you in the office in great depth and, furthermore, how can you best avoid getting into a conversation about how to drive in the snow, which is usually prefaced with their analysis of what the roads will be like?

I spent the first 20 years of my life in the Alps, so my participation in this type of discussions is usually limited to "what snow?" :rotfl:

Gloomendoom

daveyjp wrote: »

How many workers struggle to get to an office and then spend all day sitting in front of a screen undertaking tasks which can be done in front of a computer anywhere?

The answer to increasing traffic congestion and urban pollution maybe?