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71 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 11h \ 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.
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It was always the wait for the bus that was the killer when it was cold. They never seemed to run on schedule. The students had to buy the bus pass or the parking pass every quarter at our school. I refused to pay the quarterly parking fee because it was almost as high as the tuition.
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