‘Tis the season…
A good chunk of the country, from the Great Plains, into the Great Lakes region (where I live), and all the way up and across into Pennsylvania, New York and New England, is getting hammered with snow. Here in Wisconsin, we got like 5 inches, then a couple more, then another 5 inches overnight… maybe a few more tomorrow… it’s been dumping.
I actually just got in from shoveling my driveway, for the 4th time this week, and most of my neighbors were out there too, some with snowblowers, some with plows… me personally, I like the old fashioned shovel workout.
But all of that to say… is there a time of day, the middle of the night for example, where it is inappropriate to shovel your driveway? I would emphatically say absolutely not. All hours are fair game. I say this as someone who lives in Wisconsin and someone who spent 16 years in Chicago… and the chaos that is parking on the street. 2 in the morning? All good. Midnight? Fair game. 10 in the morning? Be my guest… it doesn’t matter.
Apparently, that’s not what a guy in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, thought.
According to Brandon, a dude who owns a cleaning business based in Levittown, he was up around 4am to shovel out his truck so he could get off to a job when some bozo came outside screaming at him that he was being too loud. Not a snowblower, not a truck or ATV with a plow… a shovel.
Watch this utterly insane exchange.
@brandonthecleaner Idk if I should be posting this on here but I was so caught off guard and need to vent dudes crazy #cleantok #crazyneighbor #crazyneighborcheck #snow #shovelingsnow #neighborfromhell #neighborlylove #fyp #crazystory #badneighbors ♬ original sound – Brandon The Cleaner
dudes crazy 
Brandon hit him with the “go to work,” and woooweee that had some meat behind it. It gave me life. He also added in the comments that this d*ckhead rents the house from his father-in-law so take that for what it’s worth.
I mean, can you believe the audacity of some people? Like he wants to be out there shoveling his driveway at 4 in the morning? Like he’s out there just having a grand ol’ time shoveling snow in the wee hours of the morning, only to have to get in his truck and go work? And you’re gonna come out there screaming at him like a jagoff? Dude… get some perspective. You’re not the main character, bud.
Of course, this mega viral video has garnered nearly 4.5 million views on TikTok, and primarily because it sparked a debate about what hours it is acceptable to be shoveling snow. Now, I’ve already said where I stand on the matter, but shockingly enough, there’s people who think the guy shoveling was out of line.
Listen to some of this buffoonery:
“He’s right. any time before 6 am is just not neighborly.”
“His reaction was wild but he is correct. I live in a townhouse and you can hear every single noise especially at night/early morning.”
“No 4am is ridiculous c’mon!”
“Yeah, who shovels at 4am though guys not wrong.. waking everyone up.”
“There’s barely any snow though, was it really necessary to shovel.”
“If I had gotten woken up at 4am, I think I’d burn their house down.”
“Yes should not be waking up neighbors in middle of night.”
“I mean it is 4:00 a.m. shoveling is pretty noisy for the most part the rest of the street is pretty quiet.”
“At 4am is wrong lmao.”
“Metal on cement is one of the most irritating sounds especially when you’re inside your house trying to sleep.”
“That’s not even enough snow to be shoveling that early.”
Clearly people have never shoveled snow a day in their life, or realized that not everybody works the same hours.
Thankfully, for the sake of the human race, most of the commentary was Team Brandon all the way. Most people pointed out the obvious, the neighbor was making more noise than the shoveling, and a lot of people called for him to get the snowblower out at 4am the next time.
Check out the commentary from Team Brandon:
“Why is he acting like you’re just out there shoveling just for the hell of it.”
“Everyone saying 4am is too early has never worked early shifts in their life.”
“My favorite part was “go to work”
“The dude yelling being louder than you shoveling”
“Hell our snow plows start at 3 am”
“He’s the only one waking everyone up with his yelling!”
“You know he was up playing call of duty.”
“The irony of the guy yelling at the top of his lungs being louder than the guy shoveling
“I don’t think I’ve ever hated my life enough to yell at someone SHOVELLING their drive way.”
“I’d go buy a snow blower and start using that at 430am instead of shoveling it.”
“Why would someone yell at the neighbor for cleaning the snow to get to work”
Do people not know 9-5’s aren’t the only jobs that exist?”
“With snow outside right now I fully expect everyone to be shoveling at all hours.”
“I’ve literally heard people shovel at 4am cause they have to leave at 5 my only thought ‘you poor soul, I’m going back to bed'”
People suck man…
One of my favorite quotes is from an author named Donald Miller who wrote a book titled Blue Like Jazz (if you were a young person in a trendy or non-denominational Christian church around the early 2000s, you undoubtedly read it), but the quote is:
“The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.”
Life gets a lot better, for you and for everyone around you, when you finally start to wrestle with this. Just my advice, take it or don’t.
The sad thing is… just a few years ago in Plains Township Pennsylvania, two men got into a heated argument about snow shoveling, and it resulted in one man killing the other, then killing the man’s wife, before finally turning the gun on himself. Can you imagine? Three people dead over shoveling snow? Can’t think of anything more senseless…
On February 1, 2021, a murder-suicide unfolded in Plains Township, Pennsylvania. Jeffrey Spaide, 47, fatally shot his neighbors, James Goy, 50, and Lisa Goy, 48, following a heated dispute over snow shoveling. The altercation began when the Goys, who were shoveling snow outside… pic.twitter.com/KiLGFA28qj
— FLORES (@moflbugie) October 10, 2024
Sorry to take a sad turn there, but in this day and age, senseless arguments, like some doofus being irate over a guy just trying to shovel his driveway and get to work, have a habit of turning violent.
Luckily cooler heads prevailed in this instance… stay grinding, Brandon.
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