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To an Idiot Father: Don't Commit Suicide By Motorized Vehicle

Sure, this has been the mother of all winters, but gee whiz, idiot father in my neighborhood, don't commit suicide by charging with your snowblower into and across the street right in front of my Chevy HHR Limited. I had just gone round the bend on Dover Street, and I didn't have a lot of time to stop on a dime so I didn't hurt you and your son.

Seriously, I could understand if you were so involved in shoveling snow that you charged into the street with your snowblower and stopped just short of my car. But couldn't you have looked first to see if any cars were coming? And was it really necessary to role-model self-destructive behavior for your teenage son, who followed you across the street with a snow shovel, also without looking for cars first?

I know it's been a rough winter, but I'm not interested in being the driver who is the instrument of your destruction.

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