sidewalk plower

winter and snow brings us the dreaded sidewalk snowplow. sounds like a nice thing, right? since we reside on a double corner lot, we have a lot of sidewalk that would need to be shoveled if the city didn't do it at the crack of not dawn but early darkness. it's a great thing but i end up spending way too many hours fixing the plowed up yard every spring and am not sure any time is saved. the fun part of the whole situation is the tormenting received each spring as the neighbors come down and shake their heads with disapproval and complain about the mess and inquire about how long it'll be before i have the yard back to normal. they tell us we should sue the city for the destruction. they hate the snowplow and have asked the city to stop plowing their sidewalk but were told that the machine of mass destruction couldn't be stopped. the little kiddies have to get to school, when there is school, when it snows. it saves ugly scott a great deal of work so i guess i can live with it.