AIBU - to think adults who get giddy about snow should grow up?

[TheAverageJoanne]

It causes disruption and travel problems. Nothing exciting about that. People miss crucial medical appointments for example. Don't whatever you do have a heart attack in a snow covered landscape.

On the other hand it looks cute out of the window.

I began to hate it when I was about 18 and looking back it coincided with travelling further afield and being able to drive.

What do you think?

I love snow.
Love the beauty of it, love the sound of kids playing in it.
Love the way it makes people (other thsn Op) smile and post pretty pics of snow covered places online.

I lived for 8 years in Central Asia. The snow started in September and from mid-October it stayed on the ground, building up layer after layer until the spring. Started to melt late March. Day time temperature was on average minus 20 C.

And yes it caused all sorts of disruptions, but the reaction to the first snow of winter was still joy.
And making ice slides was a treasured memory of my kids.

All weather has down sides - flooding, heatwaves, snow and ice, high winds. But they all have up sides too.

I absolutely love snow, of course it's not great in terms of practicality but in terms of magical it's right up there

I truly hate snow but why would you want to kill other peoples buzz? It’s nice watching people be happy

I love snow.

You sound like a grumpy bore.

HTH

People who moan about a few days of snow. Same killjoys who hate trees and have plastic grass. If it snows round here the people who can get out get shopping for people who can't. It's a community.

The capacity to find joy in things is a great in in life so YABU! Even though your reasons to dislike snow are valid.

I love it, it's my absolute happy place. Sorry if that makes you grumpy but I'm sure you enjoy things that I would find annoying. Moaning about it is a bit childish tbh.

😁😁😁

Oh no, some grown ups enjoy the snow, and this affects absolutely nothing, not the likelihood of snow or the consequences that follow....but, damn you happy people <shakes fist at the sky>

Yeah same with the daft fuckers that still get excited about Disney world, grown ass adults prancing around in mouse ears. Grow up

I dislike it myself but I wouldn't care about who else it brings joy to. Why be so miserable

I'm one of those...sorry OP! I prefer the cold weather and just love snow!!! For lots of reasons...the peace and stillness when it's actually snowing/not long stopped snowing. And then the fun afterwards...snow angels, snow men etc.

I get your point about the disruption though!

It is breathtakingly beautiful here today , crisp white snow , blue sky and sunshine. I defy anyone not to feel just a little tingle of joy !
I’m going out soon , all will be well.

I agree OP, add to the list adults who get giddy with excitement over bloody Xmas

It doesn't cause me travel problems

I find the expectation that finding joy in small things stops in adulthood is really sad.

DH is very definitely a "grown up"...professional job with a high level of responsibility, calm in a crisis, very practical. He also gets VERY excited when it snows and at the first flurry the kids are rounded up and taken outside for a snowball fight or to make snowmen, which they do enjoy but it's blatantly for his benefit! 😆 His ability to be a proper grown up but still show unashamedly childlike excitement over little things is one of the things I love about him.

I think you sound like a miserable, joyless moo.
It's pretty and fun to play in!

Exactly. Can’t believe OP is trying to criticise people for being excited about snow 😵‍💫

Agree.

Actually I think the capacity to find joy in situations, and beauty whereever you are in the world around us is quite a grown up ability.

And it is not remotely connected to stupid cartoon characters thanks!

Totally agree, it's lovely. Why do some miserable feckers try and make others feel ashamed for loving things like Christmas, snow or Disney?

No, I think you should grow up and let people enjoy things.

I don't get this attitude at all. If Disney World isn't your thing then that's fine, you don't have to go. But if some people love it and it makes them happy then so what? Who is that harming? I also don't get why being a "grown up" means having to hide your excitement or enjoyment of things. Prancing around in mouse ears wouldn't be for me, but other people doing it doesn't affect me in the slightest.

I have a love/hate relationship with snow. If I don't need to travel in it, it can be very beautiful. As another poster has said clear blue skies, crisp and cold with fresh snow - beautiful.

But hate driving in it. Hate it when it turns to slush etc.

But let people find joy in whatever they want. It's not like they made it snow.

I think people should get "giddy" about anything that makes them feel happy and stuff miserable buggers who think otherwise.

The snowy mountains I can see outside my bedroom window look amazing in the winter sunshine, so I have only one thing to say to OP: Ner Ner Ner Ner Ner! 😁

YANBU.

It looks nice. That's it.

The trouble is the UK very rarely gets a serious amount of snowfall, so when a few feet of it is dumped overnight, everyone loses their minds and forgets how to function. Infrastructure shuts down etc. Nanny state kicks into high gear just like it does in heatwaves. And it is shit. Because you have to be super-dooper-pooper-scooper hypervigilant, particularly on the roads. I have CCTV outside my house; the number of crashes, slips and slides caught in a big freeze a few years ago.... it's like 'You've Been Framed!'