Slow Learner

10 March 2026 – In downtown Vancouver this year, winter was a slow learner.

Finally, this very day, it remembered what to do.

Snow!

For the first time this year, I put on my winter coat.

I go out in the slop — real slop, not AI-generated — where this graffito…

says it all.

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  1. Lynette d'Arty-Cross's avatar

    Oh yes, it definitely does! It is apparently going to get very sloppy overnight, Penny, so be sure to take out your best non-slippy footwear.

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  2. J Walters's avatar

    Awww! Thought you were going to get away with it, didn’t you?

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    • icelandpenny's avatar

      The snow came just in the nick of time. My winter coat was sliding into an existential crisis, convinced it had no purpose in life…

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