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Thoughts on snow?
I have a love hate relationship with snow.
I love looking at it. And it's just not Christmas to me without it. Playing with it is so much fun! Making snow angels and snowmen is a blast! I love snow ball fights and building forts. I love sledding. There are a lot of things I like about snow.
The down side however…I hate driving in snow! It's horrible when the roads are all icy, and every idiot in the world has decided to drive when you are, and of course, they think you can stop on a dime when there's ice everywhere! I hate cleaning my car off.
I don't know how it is else where, but here we have more ice then snow right now. The past few years we really haven't had much in the way of snow in December. But…come January we'll be buried. Yesterday I went to heat up my car, and it was covered in a think layer of ice. I couldn't get it off my windows, so to remove it, I had to roll down the windows and smash out the sheets of ice. It looked like I was breaking the window of my own car! LOL.
It only ever snows properly about once a year where I live cos it's usually just a load of sleet that turns in to rain. Its all cold and wet and uuuugghhh. But when it settles on the ground overnight..HELLO! Nobody can concentrate at school cos of all the pwwweettty white stuff (seriously, we go crazy if we get snow. The weather men are like, "Treacherous conditions on the M25. Don't go out if you don't need to. Were all gunna die from the inch of slowly melting slush" Calm down dear.)
Me… I love the stuff. Mostly just to look at but sometimes my brother and I go out and have a snowball fight in the field outside our garden before school. We turn up soaked but there you go, so does everyone else so we spend about an hour drying off during lessons by the radiators.
It all has to do with age. We can see it here in this scientifically researched graph:
As you can see, very small children have an aversion to snow until almost 8 years old, wherafter a person totally loses any hesitance. 10 years old this is the highest instance of the "Whee!!" (or Fun/Amusement) factor. However, in later teen years, there is a steady decline of "Whee!!" and an increase of the "Craaap!" (or annoyance/fear) factor. This is mostly due to driving and having dates and whatnot. After a person hits 30, you can see quite a dramatic decline of "Whee!!" and increase of "Craaap!!". At about 40, the two factors are almost at equal perception. And of course, any older, "craaap!" just keeps climbing and you almost totally lose any "Whee!!" perception.
I hope that this has been of help to you.
As you can see, very small children have an aversion to snow until almost 8 years old, wherafter a person totally loses any hesitance. 10 years old this is the highest instance of the "Whee!!" (or Fun/Amusement) factor. However, in later teen years, there is a steady decline of "Whee!!" and an increase of the "Craaap!" (or annoyance/fear) factor. This is mostly due to driving and having dates and whatnot. After a person hits 30, you can see quite a dramatic decline of "Whee!!" and increase of "Craaap!!". At about 40, the two factors are almost at equal perception. And of course, any older, "craaap!" just keeps climbing and you almost totally lose any "Whee!!" perception.
I hope that this has been of help to you.
So very wise. And pretty darn accurate to boot! :D
It all has to do with age. We can see it here in this scientifically researched graph:
As you can see, very small children have an aversion to snow until almost 8 years old, wherafter a person totally loses any hesitance. 10 years old this is the highest instance of the "Whee!!" (or Fun/Amusement) factor. However, in later teen years, there is a steady decline of "Whee!!" and an increase of the "Craaap!" (or annoyance/fear) factor. This is mostly due to driving and having dates and whatnot. After a person hits 30, you can see quite a dramatic decline of "Whee!!" and increase of "Craaap!!". At about 40, the two factors are almost at equal perception. And of course, any older, "craaap!" just keeps climbing and you almost totally lose any "Whee!!" perception.
I hope that this has been of help to you.
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WWWOOOOTTTT!!! ^(' ')^ I got a diagram to prove my hatred of snow!!!
on another note, I've heard that YakTrax are awesome for walking on ice:
http://yaktrax.com/productspro.aspx
Just picked up some for family members. I'll let ya know. ;)
I love snow. I couldn't stand living in a place that doesn't get any in the winter. We've got a ton of it here right now, and I'm loving it. It really makes up for last winter when we had no snow at all at Christmas.
I haven't played in it for ages though, I really hate getting soaked when it melts.
I have a love hate relationship with snow. Most of the time, I love it. I like to look at it, play in it and even drive my car in it.
The only drawbacks were when we had the biggest driveway in the neighborhood and driving my semi through it when it's fresh and wet. (which still isn't bad if it's really cold out and it gets about as hard as concrete. Yesterday I had to drive through some pretty hilly spots of Idaho and Wyoming but it was -15F {-26.1C} so even the ice wasn't really a problem.)
I think most people who say they hate snow really just hate extreme cold and slipping on ice if you look more closely at what they're saying, though shoveling can be a bitch if it's thick or wet. Those things I hate, but not snow.
I like snow, in Oregon it actually doesn't snow very often and when it does it's usually not around for long. I like making a tiny snowman and puting him in the freezer while I still have the chance. Most of the time we just get ice: All the danger of snow with none of the fun.
I grew up with snow, in NY, and I loved it. Then I got dragged to NC when I was young, and it's only snowed 2 or 3 times here since I've moved here. It's crap. A few days ago it was 80 degrees, and it's the middle of December!!! My family gets all the snow. Bahh. I can't wait to move back.
I've lived in Arizona for a year and a half now, through two winters, so I've fortunately been out of the snow (Except when I visit Flagstaff, but that's another story).
I grew up, however, in New Hampshire. We got snow- not as bad as other states, but we got it, for sure. I hated it, from a very young age. I hated it, because it made the streets slippery and slick, and sidewalks either impossible to climb over the humps of snow, or COVERED with ice. This was exacerbated when it became my responsibility to shovel snow.
I think it still has a very magical feel to it, when it's fresh and powdery and light, perfect for packing together into a snowman or snowball. I'm just very glad I no longer have to walk on/shovel snow. :D
Ok, I like snow. At least I can have fun outside. What I can't handle is ice (so you know I live in NW Missouri, so I had no power till 8pm Friday), I get so bored and cold. And no one better make fun of me, the people around here had it so bad it made national news.
I can feel for you there. Last year I went on an exchange trip to California. We went through one of those power outages. It was EXTREMELY cold. There was a bad blizzard going outside. And the generater just wouldn't work…
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