1) A mediocre speaker with a POS smart assistant that absolutely sucks at responding to your commands. Very often misinterprets everything you say even when speaking in a normal voice, let alone when speaking quietly.
2) A dumb irritating person that you have to stick with on a long-term basis.
1) "Alexa, turn on the bedroom light"
"Sorry, I couldn't find a device named bedroom lamp"
"Alexa, turn the light strips to six"
"Got it, turning off all the lights"
"fuck off"
2) "Why so pissed?"
"I have an Amazon echo in my bedroom, go figure."
A meaningless, unimpressive, self-serving introduction. An indicator that the story about to be shared will be pointless and dumb.
Back when I lived in upstate new york, I also had to park on the street - on two occasions, we got enough snow, mixed with just the right plowing, that my car was lifted off the ground from so much snow being jammed underneath it.