Snow has been falling for the past couple of days. We now have a significant snow cover. It makes me very happy. And I refuse to entertain complaints. The rules of polite conversation dictate that, in small talk situations, you may not outright declare someone crazy for saying they love winter and all it entails. In fact, if someone complains and you counter with an emphatic “I love winter!”, certain types of people will do a quick about-face and concede that you have a point.
Friends are totally exempt from the small talk situation and will tell you that you are an actual crazy person.
You may find yourself asking what the thing is. The thing is we live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. At the 53-and-a-half parallel. In the middle of the freaking prairies. And it’s the beginning of December. Except for a few unusual years in recent memory, this happens every year. We live in a place with one long season and three shorter seasons. That long season is, every year, winter. I think that if you have been living somewhere for more than, say, three years, the regular seasonal changes should not come as a surprise.
I’m not saying people have to like winter. For all I care, they can get together and have a big old “I hate winter” mope-fest. As long as it’s not within earshot.
oh, jess. it does scare me, sometimes, how we’re usually on the same exact parallel. no matter geographic locations.
I adore winter. I love snow.
Thought let me clarify the latter: I love snow, whilst sitting indoors looking st the sheer whiteout beauty of it. It just terrifies me underfoot.
I’m with the ‘love winter’ camp. Most definitely.
I’m dreadfully sorry. I can’t go with the “I love winter” group. To me, the fact that I do live with it for the largest part of the year, and currently have 3 feet deep of it to plow through in order to get to work gives me the right to not like it (although complaining unendingly won’t actually improve matters). On the other hand, snow is pretty, and when it isn’t causing me undue hardship and dangerous driving conditions… I like to look at it.