#Yes I know you can just remove it and it'll be fine (it'll just deteriorate the car faster)

[fluffyapathybunny]

I'm so devastated that one panic-inducing winter morning this past year made me not want to move to Finland to live there after all.

Like I spent so much of the last 9 years trying to plan how to save up and what to pack and where to live and failing to learn the language.

And the funny thing is, I've driven on purely snowy roads. I live in central NY and have dealt with blizzard conditions and I know how to drive in the winter. But for some reason the winter weather the one morning in February where: the roads were so icy and bad, and the visibility was so terrible, and the plows couldn't keep up with the snow, and I had a panic attack at a citgo where I texted my (then) replenishment manager and store manager saying I tried to make it in but I was literally in the band of lake effect and I wouldn't be in (only to be told later that even my replenishment manager called in that morning and she lived further south than me), made me decide that "maybe I don't want to live there after all."