'Snow picnic

This week, about 10 inches of snow got dumped on us over two days. I don't have a snowblower. And I live on a corner lot with three times the lineal sidewalk space of my neighbors. %!$%@#^&$ Euclidean geometry!!!
After the first major snowfall this winter, I huffed and heaved and shoveled off my driveway, which is large enough to taxi a 737 on. I petered out when it came to the sidewalks, but thankfully my neighbor took pity on my and let me borrow her snowblower. Since my back-breaking effort, I've been kind of lackadaisical in my attitude toward snow-covered walkways. Why fight it? Must we force our repressive cultural expectations of dry feet and clear, straight paths onto the free-ranging, uninhibited whirlwind of frosty bliss? I didn't even shovel the driveway a few snowfalls ago either. I've got 4WD now, so who cares? Snowdrifts can't stop me. After a few days, the driveway looked like a windswept Himalayan landscape, with deep troughs and miniature mountain ranges. Of course, when I finally did try to move the compacted snow and ice, it was more like a surface mining operation.
Anyway, when it snowed a few days ago my neighbors on either side took pity on me again and did my sidewalks with their respective snowblowers. But after the 4 or 5 inches we got the next night, I think they were tired of carrying the neighborhood's dead weight. So I knew I had to shovel. I whined about it to anyone who would listen. I even contemplated using my birthday money to run out an buy my own snowblower at the last minute, but the home improvement stores shut down before I ever mustered the effort.
Then a friend, probably tired of listening to me gripe, let me borrow his snowblower. I did my driveway, my walks, my neighbors' sidewalks all the way up the block. I got out the shovel and cut passages through the chunky, plow-pushed piles at the street corner. I even fixed the snowblower's loose handle. I was invigorated. Snow blowing is so easy. No more shoveling every last inch of walk.
Then I realized that if I went and bought a snowblower myself, by next winter I would be griping about how hard it is to go out and push it.
Go figure.