Ten ways in which snowflakes are like zombies are like animal droppings:
- Each one is unique
- They often show up when you least expect it
- They seem to be everywhere these days
- One is okay, two is fine, three is pushing it, and four or more is too many
- Masses of them are best dealt with using a specially modified shovel
- Driving on them is a messy, dangerous, and altogether nightmarish ordeal, and those who enjoy the experience are probably unbalanced
- Scraping frozen ones off your car in the morning is no fun
- Having them melt into a shallow wet smear is preferable to having large heaps of them lying around
- Leisure activities in which they are required to be underfoot can sometimes be entertaining to watch, but only in a coliseum-like, slow-decay-of-civilization way.
- You can eat them, but probably shouldn’t