Have you tried wearing socks on, shoes off? I have never in my life been at a point where my feet were too cold for just socks indoors, have mostly lived with hardwood or tile flooring, and also live somewhere with fairly cold winters.

I just cannot fathom shoes-on arguments. Shoes can be so uncomfortable when lounging around the house.

“You” the general public, not “you” mrgoosmoos

Exactly…? If no one goes in, the store gains no benefit (only expending the cost of being open). But stores will open just on the off chance of customers coming in. And customers do go in, because the stores are open. Sometimes they go in and don’t even buy anything.

If you want retail employees to be able to spend holidays with their families, don’t go shopping on holidays. Make it unprofitable to be open.

The catch 22 is that the companies are opening on these days to catch the customers that come out. People go because the store is open, the store is open because people go. If people consistently, collectively didn’t go in, the stores would close.

Yeah, so if a snowman was built on their lawn, on their property, and not on the street, and that snowman happened to have a solid core, whoever built the snowman should not be liable for any damages

Doesn’t it depend where the obstacle is, though? I’m assuming these are cars parking on the road, or at least a shoulder or driveway. If the cars are pulling up onto a front lawn and parking under the kitchen window of a house, that’s entirely different. I’m pretty sure filling a traffic cone with concrete and placing it in a path a car is expected to drive on is going to get you in trouble anywhere. I doubt building a snowman with a stump or concrete core in the middle of a lawn on private property would get you in trouble in most places.

People who don’t like winter act like they are freezing to death the second it’s below 50F