In my years on this planet, I've discovered a few things. One of those things is that I get a better response from people if I say "could" as opposed to "should."
In other words, I get better reception from people when I say, "You could change your understanding of the topic." People seem to shut down when I say, "You should ..."
So, it's been beneficial to me to change my manner of speech and you could benefit from doing the same thing - if you desire. It's a pretty easy habit to break, in my experience.
But, I'm going to break that convention and say that I like snowshoes - and you should also like snowshoes.
If you come to my house in the winter, I'm probably gonna try to get you onto a pair of snowshoes. I have quite a few varieties and I have them in a number of sizes.
Yes, snowshoes are rated for the size of the person who will be wearing them. Heavier people need different snowshoes and lighter people can get smaller shoes. Not to worry, I have 'em in a bunch of sizes!
Why? What kind of right-minded person wants to wear snowshoes?!?
Well, the obvious benefit is that you can walk atop the snow with great ease.
Hogwash!!!
The real benefit is that you're quiet. You're able to be so quiet that furry woodland critters don't notice you - until it's much too late.
Still not seeing the benefit?
You can sneak up on a furry woodland critter and say, "Boo!"
There's not much funnier than a young deer that has just been jumped by someone saying "Boo!"
They will leap straight up into the air, sometimes turn around mid-air, and bolt off in whatever direction their akimbo feet take 'em.
On a good day, that deer will smash headlong into a tree.
Rabbits? Oh, they'll sometimes do a somersault - right there! There will be a giant puff of snow, flying into the air, and ol' Mr. Rabbit freaks the hell out.
Moose? They're already ungainly as all hell. They're also huge - so stand behind a tree when you scare a moose. They don't actually appear to know how to control their bodies and will just smash off in any suitable direction. Having observed many moose, I'm not actually sure how they've not yet gone extinct. I'm pretty sure they're Nature's way of having a laugh at us.
But, my point is that there's not much funnier than scaring the ever living hell out of a furry woodland critter - and you can do this when you're on snowshoes.
Deer? Oh, they're funnier than hell. Deer are incredibly curious.
If you scare a deer, it'll then make a loop of about 1 mile and come back to see what the hell it was that scared it.
If you do it just right, you can scare that same deer two or three times before it gets dark.
Is this mean?
Nope...
Those bastards started it. Every single one of 'em regularly tries to kill people by leaping into the road and trying to make you swerve.
I can accept that. I'm okay with that.
It's that the dirty rotten bastards steal from my garden. Build a fence, they told me!
No...
Deer go over a fence. Rabbits go under the fence. Moose just stomp right straight through the fence. Once, I had a deer stuck in my garden. It jumped in there. It refused to jump out.
They then eat my food. It's my food. I know, 'cause I planted it there.
They have their own food. It's not like they don't have plenty of room - I'm pretty damned rural. There's very little pressure put on the furry woodland critter populations in my neighborhood.
They don't actually have to steal from my garden. They have tens of thousands of acres, acres that are right full of furry woodland critter food.
By the way, rabbits don't actually eat carrots. No, rabbits eat carrot greens, thereby denying you the chance to eat delicious carrots. There's no way to actually stop them, so the only solution is to grow a bigger garden. Trust me, I've tried everything. The only logical solution is to plant enough food so that I still have some to harvest after the critters have stolen their share. I'd estimate that 25 to 30% of what I plant gets stolen by animals.
They're just immoral garden stealers. It's what they do.
So, in my way of getting something out of the deal, I use them for my amusement.
They're most amusing when they're smashing into trees in a panicked fit. This is best accomplished while wearing snowshoes.
If you've never seen a deer completely shocked, surprised to the point where it's bound to do almost anything, you've never seen the funniest thing on the planet.
Which is why everyone should own snowshoes.
LOL. Also, you're a terrible person.