To insist proper snow etiquette is observed?

[headfairy]

1. don't throw snowballs unprovoked in to the face of strangers, even if you are a cute little 6 year old girl. Unless they actively encourage you to start a snowball fight with you, don't.

2. when a stranger you've just thrown a snowball at politely asks you not to, please don't do it again.

3. if you do decide to ignore point 2 above don't be surprised if the stranger throws a snowball back at your face,

4. do not sledge directly at someone at high speed and completely out of control.

5. especially if you are 45 and your kids are standing around bored while you dominate use the sledge.

6. do not demolish someone else's snowman lovingly crafted with their children so you can take the snow and build an even bigger and ever so slightly obscene snowman.

That is all until I can think of more to whinge about

Have a hot toddy. Plenty of whiskey. Don't give the buggers any.

May I add

7. Don't step on other peoples snow in their front garden even if they are lazy buggers still in bed I had my eye on that bloody snow it was mine DC and they ruined it.

Don't eat yellow snow.

Or brown snow.

Ha Linerunner, I would but I can't stand whiskey. I even watched one fully grown man in his (approx) early 40s crash his sledge in to a passing woman pushing a pram and not even apologise.

Did I just stumble upon the rudest hill in England or has anyone else noticed some kind of snow induced hysteria that made everyone forget their manners today?

Do not attempt to throw a snowball at your mother when she has a snow shovel full of snow and you are within slinging range.
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pantspantspants that is so an unwritten rule that everyone should abide - my snow and it's mine to ruin!

Oh yes pantspants that's just good old fashioned trespass.

I've got another one....

When you have struggled up an icy slope of snow compacted by hundreds of children, do not then plonk your sledge directly in front of someone else who has alo trudged up the same icy slope, quite possibly carrying a small child as well as a sledge, and then proceed to take twenty minutes adjusting your gloves/hat/scarf/fat arse on the sledge thereby making the person you just plonked your sledge in front of wait a similar amount of time.

Do not clear the snow from your path and leave a huge mound of compacted snow/ice on the pavement - forcing pedestrians to walk in the road.

I've got one.

If you are going to clear the snow off your drive way do not dump it on next doors driveway behind their car when you know they have to leave early tomorrow morning whilst you lounge around like a lazy arse are unemployed.

Wouldn't mind if they actually went anywhere today.

Please don't defrost your car with several buckets of water that runs right across the road. It makes me grumpy when I slip on it as I can't avoid it and more grumpy when my car skids on it

Do not act like a sheep every time is snows and make for the nearest slope like all the other idiots who want to post fun happy family pics online families.

Instead, stay at home and play in the garden, if you have no garden then visit a relative who is in possesion of one.

I yes, if you're path clearing, for God's sake use some salt to melt the snow, don't just leave a super fine layer of snow your shovel/broom won't shift which then freezes solid and becomes absolutely treacherous.

chas there's no way ds would have let me get away with that one. No hills in our garden for him to whizz down!

I have a lovely big garden that yes the boys and I could have played in....but.....we wanted sledging time! Also holding hands up as guilty of posting pics

My little one is only 20months, so i took him to the park to play in the snow with friends.

Snow etiquette, please dont push me in the snow! Or laugh when i fall arse over head!

I didn't post any pics, far too busy dodging idiots having fun, but dh did.

Last year, the men of the street spent an afternoon clearing the road, which was good, but piled a huge heap of it in front of my car, which was very very bad !!!!!

Can you imagine thinking that was acceptable !

I was beyond furious, especially as DH was out there with them.

He could get his car off the drive but mine was blocked in, for about a week after the road was completely clear. DH eventually went out and moved it (I couldn't because of back problems and anger issues).

In future I'll be watching them like a hawk and will be out there fish wife style if they even look in the direction of my side of the drive.

Here's another one for older parents of singleton PFB DD - don't dress for church (cashmere overcoat, silky scarf, skirt, heels and possibly pearls) to take said DD sledging on a moor that you clearly up until now thought was purely decorative.
Saw this today when walking on said moor and wanted to beg them to go home before something awful involving the air ambulance happened.

Sledging in the UK terrifies me...you're never more than a few inches away from some jutting brick or rock...

Yes, what is this clearing the drive but not going out anywhere nonsense all about?

DS, do not trip over, pretend to cry, then, when I bend over to see if you're okay, stuff snow up my jumper.

Bloody duplicitous child.

don't allow your dog to run loose in your neighbours front garden and disturb the snow (dh is upset his virgin snow has been spoiled )

Twostepsback do you live down my road? The tool opposite me has done that. What a twit!