Oh, joy. When I got home yesterday, it was a cool but manageable 47 degrees Fahrenheit outside. By the time my wife got home, the temperature had pancaked well below that and snow was covering everything. I’m not a fan of winter…I’ve broken too many bones and I’ve lived too rough of a life early on to enjoy the cold anymore. And I’m not an fan of snow and ice. I don’t ski, I don’t snowboard, and it doesn’t snow enough here for snowmobiles, sledding or even snowmen. And that’s just here around BangShift Mid-West. Remember, I’m more of the West Coast type, having spent many years growing up at the foot of Pikes Peak and in the Pacific Northwest, where when it snowed, it did a hell of a job. Have you seen the rather infamous footage of what happened on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle in 2010? Two words, folks: “automotive pinball”. Heavy bus plus less-than-ideal conditions usually ends with a lengthy call to an insurance company and a pink slip.

The location for this video is Saltburn-by-the-Sea, a neat little seaside village about halfway up the eastern side of the United Kingdom. During the nicer months, it’s as picturesque as any other seaside village, but on this day it was cold, wet, and nasty. And the driver of this coach not only made everyone else look like absolute chumps in the ice and snow, but he did it on a road that is better suited to a sport bike than a shuttle service. All with a friendly wave to traffic that let him pass, too. Now that’s service!