My Mumbling Thoughts

I don't know who authorized the blonde lady with short hair to ride around in the plow truck and trap everybody BACK in their driveway, but whoever decided that that was a good idea was severely mistaken.

Earlier today my mother spent two hours shoveling out our driveway. She did a prime job and there wasn't any snow of any kind blocking us in. The sun began to shine shortly after and our driveway was also beginning to dry up.

Later in the early afternoon we heard a beeping sound indicating that there was a truck of some kind lurking below us. After we poked our heads around the curtains we saw that she was riding around and plowing excess snow off of the road back into our driveways blocking us in. We couldn't understand what she was doing. She was wasting the two hours that my mother had spent shoveling snow.

Obviously we were peeved and decided to confront the blonde lady with short hair who felt like she was doing us some kind of favor by pushing snow "accidentally" into our driveways. We told her that she didn't have any right to be driving around and blocking not only us, but many others who had spent hours cleaning up their drives.

She gave us some crack pot story saying that she drives around and cleans up the roads. She needed to unblock the drains so that people wouldn't get flooded in, which we agreed would be a bad thing. However, why she had to go about and dump more snow in front of driveways that were already fine didn't make any sense. A man actually got out of the truck and shoveled the snow that had fell into the driveway the first time she came by.

We thought the drama was over after the man had kindly shoveled the snow back out of our drive, however, it turns out she came back for round two! This time not only did she block in one side of our driveway, but she blocked in both sides. She made it even worse and then fled the scene.

That is when I flipped my lid, got in my car, and tracked her down. There was an exchange of words and I was not the only dissatisfied home owner who had decided to find her and ask why she was plowing more snow in front of our already clean driveways. She explained that it was her job to clean up the roads and unfortunately excess snow does block people in. I think that's great that she takes time out of her life to help clean up the roads in our neighborhood, but I don't understand as to how we are actually supposed to use the roads that she has cleaned up if we CAN'T EVEN GET OUT OF OUR DRIVEWAYS BECAUSE SHE PLOWED US BACK IN. Honestly, it doesn't make any sense to me or to any of the other folks who don't appreciate having to do extra work after they've already spent two or more hours working on getting their driveways cleaned up.

I decided to leave and told her to come back so she could clean up that unnecessary mess she made and that my mother would like to speak with her.

She drove by alright, but she just knocked even MORE snow in front of our driveway, and then left without a word.

Personally, I don't think that's professional, it's rude, and absolutely uncalled for. Is this actually the kind of person you want representing your company? Someone who doesn't know how to operate machinery properly and comes back to mess things up even more out of spite?

We expect a formal apology from you and your company. We should hope that you would take the time to come out here and take a look at the mess that she left behind and also take notice to the other home owners that she has managed to block in. We understand that clearing up the roads must be done and we do appreciate that people do take the time to come out early and get it done. What we DON'T appreciate are people who lack common sense and make a bigger mess out of things that should just be left alone.

On a completely unrelated note, I thought that I would also inform you of the millions of cars that have been illegally parking on the side of the street. That is not only hazardous, it's an extreme eye sore. We pay good money for a parking space that we don't even get to use because somebody has already parked their enormous piece of tin in our space. We haven't seen any kind of action whatsoever to alleviate this problem. It has slowly been getting worse as time goes by, and what I can't seem to understand is why do I even pay you our home owner's association fee, when you and all of your other employees don't seem to be doing anything to make these problems go away. If I do understand correctly, that is your job.

So if you wouldn't mind taking the time to do something about this, we would greatly appreciate it.

If you need any additional information, please do not hesitate to call. We can be reached one of many ways that are listed down below.

An extremely unhappy home owner,

Samantha (insert last name here)