It is 4:40am, and I have just come inside after shovelling my driveway. Yes, you read that correctly, I shovelled my driveway at four in the morning. Why? Well, for starters, I didn’t want to drive onto the newly fallen snow to park my car, because it would just compress the snow and make it even more difficult to shovel. So I busted out the shovel and 40 minutes later, a clean (somewhat) driveway!
After all that back breaking labour, I thought to myself, well, that’s a huge load off anyone’s mind in the coming morning. Great, I’ve done my family a good service.
But I thought of something while doing my walk way.
I realized that it would really make things easier for my neighbours if they had a shovelled walkway to their garage as well. Why? Well, I don’t think anyone on this street has in-house access to their garage, and most people keep their shovels in their garage. This combination can be troublesome for most people as they have to trudge in the snow before they can get to their shovels.
So I spent an extra 5 minutes to shovel the walkways of the neighbours to the left and right of my house, and made a little shoveled path to their garage.
Will it makes things easier for my neighbours? Maybe. But they now know that my family will give them a helping hand, and I hope they show that kind of love to my family and the rest of the neighbourhood.
Happy shoveling folks!
Posted on January 18th, 2009 by Jon Lim
Filed under: Life
Let’s just hope they don’t react like that neighbour on RFD that threatened to call the police because the guy shoveled their driveway =/
Some people!
Fortunately, my neighbours are very friendly and we often mow each other’s lawns and what not. They thanked my parents this morning for shoveling the walk way!