HERSHEY - Next time you complain about a snowy sidewalk or difficulty getting into 'your' parking spot, snow removal crews are complaining just as much about you. That's the message from a Hershey-area landscape nursery that has been battered by a long string of winter storms and ice.
"I don't know if these people are morons year-round or if it just comes out in winter," said Rick, one member of a three-man crew responsible for clearing a corporate research center. "I don't even want to be out here, but some yahoo has an idea about shaving half a cent off production costs and he's gotta drive in. #@$%?! idiot. Is that half-cent going to matter when you're in a @#@$?!! ditch?"
His co-worker Izzy agreed. "On one of these storms -- and I can't exactly remember which one since I'm not even sure what day today is -- I saw a woman walk in with bare ankles and high heels. That's just stupid. Not only is it stupid for this kind of weather, it's a fashion Don't. It totally made her look shorter." It just proved, she said, that "She's one of the many dumbasses here."
The nursery personnel have several coping mechanisms, including challenging the record for the number of f-bombs dropped in a two-hour period; that record is currently held by the movie 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' Workers also like to use their radios to discuss plowing cars in up to their doors. "Unfortunately, our company logos are plastered all over the trucks, so we can't do that," Rick said. "But that would be sweet as chocolate. Maybe we can have some fake signs made up before winter ends, slap 'em onto the plows, and go to town. I'm sure we'll have a few more opportunities the way it's been going for us this year."
