uncaring or unthinking?

on this morning’s walk to school thru the snow thought it was very nice of a person that had cleared their drive of snow to leave it as a 3ft high frozen mound across the pavement, evasive action around parked cars resulted in kids being scared by gritter truck…it is safer to drive the kids to school.

Thats it not really angry just fed up

Can I answer both?

yes probably both but was trying to work out the thought process

– was it “i don’t care a toss i can get my car out” or “i didn’t think people would have to walk round it maybe i’ll stand outside naked and give them personal apologies”

Is the owner’s name Jack, and is he alright?

There was a guy we passed on the way to work the other day being very good and clearing the pavement outside his house. only instead of shovelling the snow up against the 5ft wall between pavement and garden, he was throwing it into the path of oncoming cars. Idiot.

Haha LOL @ aP.

It depends on the person but Id say probably didnt even give it a thought, was just late for work, annoyed at having to dig the car out, and just done it as quickly as possible.

Would have probably made the kids late by getting them to help me use the snow to make multiple snowmen in the persons drive…

Maybe some chicken wire and get them to build a reinforced snow wall across the end of the drive?

No aP, YOUR name might be Jack, although HE may indeed be alright if you carefully deconstruct the original expression. So LOL denied

We live in a society where selfishness is encouraged, celebrated, and rewarded. The belief being, that selfish motivation can benefit others.

“Do-gooders” on the other hand, are shown contempt and ridicule. The belief being, that society cannot move forward through altruistic motivation. If indeed, there is any such thing as “society”.

The person who thought “I don’t care a toss I can get my car out” was simply behaving in accordance with society’s expectations. And I suspect that he didn’t give the consequences of his actions on others, any thought at all.

what should he/she have done with the snow?

ernie – you make the assumption that people are inherently alturistic, but that their selfishness comes from the influence of society. T

What if some people, irrespective of societal norms, are inherently selfish?

from my experience of the snow we’ve had, I’m not sure that a 3ft mound would have been frozen, and at the same time enough of an obstacle to stop kids climbing over it.

It was your choice to take “evasive” action that took them into the situation in which the gritter truck scared them surely? A 30 second wait would have allowed it to pass cleanly, again, surely?

ernie – you make the assumption that people are inherently alturistic, but that their selfishness comes from the influence of society.

I make no such assumption.

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what should he/she have done with the snow?

piled it against the wall on the lawn?

It depends on the person but Id say probably didnt even give it a thought, was just late for work, annoyed at having to dig the car out, and just done it as quickly as possible

car was still in drive – so also a lazy g1t (or works nights and is therefore a hero)

as to avoiding the gritter we did our best to squeeze back between the parked cars

and ernie_lynch – well put

A 3ft wall of snow would make a great kicker. You should have gone back, got the bikes and launched off it. Just like I have been doing with the one the sledgers have made near my house.