Dear Jerk

dear jerkThis seemingly never-ending winter of record snowfalls leads to desperation in the form of shovel-thieving and frustrated retaliation in the form of "Dear Jerk" letter-writing. If you happen to be reading this, dearest Jerk, please be a good Torontonian and return the shovel so we can all return to the tedious back-breaking work of removing the stuff from our walkways.

Thanks to blogTO reader Guy Matorin for spotting this, photographing it, and sending it our way!

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Dear Jerk: stop parking your car in the middle of Queen street and blocking the streetcar's when there's more than a metre between your car and the curb/snowbank: http://www.nakedknitgirl.ca/?p=3682

Posted by: Maria at March 10, 2008 9:35 PM

Dear Jerk,

When it's a full-on blizzard and traffic is moving along the 401 steadily at about 80-90km/hr, please don't blow by me in the rightmost lane doing 130km/hr.

Posted by: Jerrold at March 10, 2008 10:06 PM

Lol, great photograph !
I feel bad for the family that lost there shovel,
but ya gotta love'em for there sense of humor.

James.

Posted by: James at March 10, 2008 10:22 PM

Dear Jerk,

Just because you're gentrifying my neighborhood with your stupid swanky condo doesn't give you the right to call the city on your new neighbors, complaining that the recycling bins we put out are an eyesore.

Posted by: Joe Howell at March 11, 2008 12:09 AM

Dear Jerk,
I don't care if you have a snowplow attached to the front of your tractor, keep your 15 km/h vehicle off major roads during rush hour. Or at least have the decency to pull over and let people pass, including the ttc busses which you've just put 20 minutes behind schedule.

Posted by: Ryan L. at March 11, 2008 8:06 AM

Dear Jerk,

Please don't leave your truck idling when you go into mcdonalds for breakfast.

Posted by: Ben at March 11, 2008 9:07 AM

Dear Jerk commenting above,

Have the decency to let snowplowers do their job, and don't think that you're entitled to blow full steam ahead having no regard for conditions and other road users. If it weren't for the snowplows, the busses would be way more than 20 minutes behind schedule.

Posted by: chephy at March 11, 2008 9:15 AM

Anyone have a good recipe for Jerk Chicken?

Posted by: Jerrold at March 11, 2008 9:29 AM

Dear Jerk,

Just because you're a renter and don't own the house you're living in doesn't mean you still shouldn't shovel the sidewalk in front of it. You may or may not be legally required to do so, but would it kill you to do a good thing for your neighbourhood and the people who live in it?

That goes double for you Miss Big Fancy St. Andrews Presbyterian Church on King St. West.

Posted by: tripper at March 11, 2008 9:53 AM

Brilliant photograph... the photographer should definitely consider submitting it to http://www.passiveagressivenotes.com :)

Posted by: Katie at March 11, 2008 10:13 AM

I didn't say it was a plow. Either way, leaving the truck idling is pointless.

Posted by: Ben at March 11, 2008 10:28 AM

Ben, I think chephy was responding to Ryan L.

Posted by: tripper at March 11, 2008 10:36 AM

Yes, my comment was directed at Ryan L. "Above" didn't mean "directly above". I agree that idling trucks and cars are stupid. I wish the anti-idling bylaw was actually enforced.

Posted by: chephy at March 11, 2008 1:00 PM

The Plow wasn't a city plow, but a private one. The city doesn't use tractor based ones last time I checked. Probably because of their limited speed and plowing capabilities.

But I'm sure that business park it just plowed was worth backing up traffic for miles.

Posted by: Ryan L. at March 11, 2008 9:37 PM

Hey that's our house!!!

We never did get our shovel back but one of our AWESOME neighbours shovelled our walk and sidewalk for us. For the whole story (http://prolificcynic.blogspot.com/2008/03/tale-with-happy-ending.html)

Posted by: jenH at March 27, 2008 11:18 AM

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