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71 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 10 Jan \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
I'm in the middle-ish part of the country. It got pretty cold after it snowed, but the snow was the excuse for closing school and not collecting trash/recycling.
It seems so ridiculous to me, because I grew up in the cold and snowy north. If there was less than a foot of snow, no way anything was closing.
Where we lived it sometimes got to -40 degrees. I was walking to work everyday. My wife thought I was crazy because the clothes I wore were not really fit for those temperatures. I found that if I kept up a brisk walk, even through fairly deep snow, I could keep warm for the length of the walk. My co-workers also thought I was out in left field.
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Yeah, my first university job was somewhere similarly cold and I also walked a little over a mile to work everyday.
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Yes, it was a nice stroll. I never once got cold doing that. I did get cold if I stopped and stood around, though.
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I got plenty cold, but I wasn't about to pay for a parking pass that would still leave me walking half a mile.
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This sounds like the university I went to. I wound up taking the bus, a special express bus to within about a quarter of a mile from my first class. The walk there was brisk, too. I must say that I saved a lot of money by not driving and parking. The university had a special deal on “all you can ride for a month” bus passes.
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Our student and faculty ID's were actually good for using the local buses. However, that also would be about a half mile walk and invariably a half hour wait, followed by a half hour ride.