English Snow

One thing that the English get made fun of for (besides our accent, our love of tea and our apparantly bad teeth) is how we handle snow. It really is true; one snowflake and the whole country comes to a standstill. I guess though that there is a reason for this; until a few years ago it hadn't properly snowed in the south of England since I was about four. Countries that get snow on a regular basis are better prepared for it than England is. Maybe in a few years time, if January snow becomes a regular thing, we will be able to handle it without shutting down everything, and the rest of the world will stop making fun of us for it. Or maybe we will always handle it like this, and I should be grateful that I'll get some days off work out of it.