ANNA Your Majesty, we have had a little misunderstanding. I was describing snow and they refused to believe that there was such a thing.

KING Snow?

ANNA (Gesturing snow falling) Snow.

(CHULALONGKORN has raised his head and noted her gesture )

KING (Feeling his way) Oh, yes. From mountain top.

ANNA From the sky.

KING From sky to mountain top.

CHULALONGKORN Sire… please … how does it come down from the sky?

KING Like this. (And he makes exactly the same gesture as ANNA did, lowering his hands and wiggling his fingers the while )

CHULALONGKORN (Gravely) Thank you, sire.

KING (He snaps his fingers as if bringing the picture back to his mind) I have see picture—Switzerland!

ANNA That’s right, Your Majesty.

KING Land all white—with snow. (Turning to the class, with an angry challenge) Who does not believe this? (There is complete silence)

ANNA Well, after all, they have never seen it, and… 

KING Never see? If they will know only what they see, why do we have schoolroom? (He turns to the class and crackles out a sudden command) Rise! (They all come to their feet) Do not ever let me hear of not believing teacher, who I have bring here at high expense—twenty pounds—each month. (All eyes turn toward ANNA with a strange accusing look, as if she were robbing the KING) Twenty English pounds! (He stamps his foot) Sterling!

Oh, it’s not snow that’s my pet peeve. Snow is ok. I even used to like it.

No, what sets my teeth on edge is when people don’t clear the snow off the tops of their vehicles. They’ll clean off their front and back windshields and think they’ve done all they need to do, but the tops of their vehicles are still piled high with that white stuff. Then they get inside and drive off and pretty soon that snow on top of their roofs starts flying off and hits the cars behind them. I know because I’ve been the recipient of more than my share.

I guess it shouldn’t bother me so much because I don’t drive anymore, but I still see jerks clearing off their vehicles (SUV owners are especially prone to this behavior) and leaving all the snow on top as they drive away. 

The other thing that bugs me is after I’ve cleaned off my sidewalk, the cretin (who doesn’t live on this street but has parked in front of my house) comes along to clear off his (or her) vehicle and pushes the snow off their windshield right back onto my sidewalk. Now that really pisses me off.

(By the way, you might consider the opening quotation to be foreshadowing.)