Winter weather brings out the worst and the best in people — along the thin spectrum of normalcy in north american suburban life.

The first snowfall of the season caught our street off guard. Everyone fended for himself, and people worked their snow shovels hard. The few that tried their snow blowers ended up with sputtering failures. The second snowfall, just days ago, was rather different: people were prepared, and had less snow to shovel. So, how did people react?

adjective	behaviour
catatonic	does not clear driveway or sidewalk
indifferent	shovels own driveway and sidewalk, pays no attention to neighbours
normal	shovels own areas, and token segments of neighbours’ sidewalks
ostentatious	uses brand new snowblower on own ridiculously tiny area
spoilsport	shovels own areas with brand new snowblower, then proceeds to ruin it for everyone else’s new snowblower by clearing whole swaths of the street
boy scout	buys and maintains a high-powered, fuel-guzzling, awesomely noisy snow blower; after finishing own area, invites neighbours to play, er, use the machine too

May I advance to the highest stratum.