A Divorced Crybaby Has Moved in Next Door - Vol. 2 Ch. 29.9 - Author Afterword + Omake

[havelmom]

so, was this the ending or are we just at hiatus?

 

[Qwormuli]

Yup, it be like that in snowy places. As a finnish person, I'll also endorse the message: Brush the cars rooftop of snow too! Its not fun to end up in the same situation as the author and panic when you don't see shit from the snow that slid from the roof. Then you have to brush the car again and could be jamming traffic if you can't park safely with the snow on.

Its a drag in the winter, as is getting in a cold car in the morning if you don't have a heater either in the car or separately bought. And driving during a hail is dangerous, especially if in an area without lot of light, its like driving in pure darkness sometimes. Which is why I try to time my traveling to happen during the maybe 6 hours of light during the day.

...at least we get to admire pure white landscapes and those rare nice days when sun's light makes the snow glimmer, like you are standing in a field of diamonds

Yup, can endorse that. People taking their uncleared fucking igloos on the road should be lynched with the snow shovels neglect. It's not even just your windshield, but when an overfilled snowcone like that accelerates onto a bigger road, they hazard dumping the whole thing onto the car behind them from the increased drag. And losing your vision in a spot like that due to some lazy or vacuous window licker is just about the last thing you want.

 

[OccasionalMangaPeruser]

I don't think a squeegee is peak snow removal equipment. You're better off with a brush of some kind so it can move more at once. Like a big, soft-bristled push-broom.

Also is the author a guy or a girl? Avatar is big booba demon lady like from that other series they do, but references being a salaryman. Now it might just be a translation issue and the term isn't meant to be gender-specific but simply is as a holdover from when the profession was nothing but guys (and using "OL" is a bit loaded since it carries a whole whack of implications), or is it just that the author uses a variant of one of their own characters as an avatar regardless of the gender difference?

OL?

 

[Darkshade13]

OL?

Office Lady. A whole "career track" for women in white collar business environments where they basically weren't tasked with anything important and existed only to do menial, secretarial work and stuff like getting coffee for management and looking cute. And it was a dead-end career too with no advancement because the expectation is that it was only for young women to come in, look cute and work for a couple of years, bag themselves a good husband out of the managers or upwardly mobile staff members, then retire to be a housewife like is "proper."

Basically it was a way for Japan to say "look! Gender equality! We're letting women work too!" while having them do as little important stuff as possible and still expecting them to stop working as soon as possible so they could do what tradition demanded.

As far as I know, it's fallen out of fashion in more recent times as the sexist subtext became more apparent and frowned on and Japan legitimately made strides towards workplace equality, but it continues to be a trope and exist in some places because Japan is change resistant and fiercely conservative/traditionalist.