The following was an email I sent to MoC when I got to work this morning. I had to be here very early and I almost made it on time. When I got to the door I realized I didn’t have my passkey, so I had to wait til someone else showed up. Outside. In the cold. And then it started to snow.
Guess what??
You don’t have to work today! Never again do you have to deal with ice and snow and crappy weather. Doesn’t that make you feel warm all the way down to your toes??
I got up at the crack of Oh-My-God, armed myself with the kitty litter and tried to get safely from the deck to the sidewalk. I made it. Yay me. I started my car at 5:10 am and turned the defroster on High. That should work, right? Yeah, I’m an optimist. At 5:45 I went back downstairs and still had a layer of ice on my windshields … a thick layer. So I started scraping. I got most of it off the front but I couldn’t free my windshield wipers. I think I broke the windshield wiper. I know I broke my scraper. It flew apart piece by piece. So I got in the car and went to QT, thinking I’d buy a new scraper and get gas. I really have to stop being so optimistic.My gas tank door was frozen shut. I said bad words. I went inside to get de-icer and a scraper. The guy laughed at me, but when I looked ready to cry, he told me to pour hot water around the gas tank door. So I did and it worked and I got gas. Then I pulled to the front to try to get some of the ice off the back window with half a scraper. It worked (guess the defroster helped – after almost an hour), but I demolished the scraper. Now I have nothing … and my windshield wipers are still stuck. And of course the fluid is frozen too. So I went to work. It wasn’t bad until I got on the highway. It’s supposed to be only 15 degrees today. I bet everyone is out of scrapers. I am going to clean my window with windex before I leave and hope that works.
I want to retire. I really should have called in. This is stupid.
On the bright side, I got a nice birthday card from Vice President of Everything Else with a $5 gift card from Target. I’m about to send her a thank you note.
Maybe I can buy a scraper with the gift card.
Update: At lunch, I attacked the ice still on my car with scissors. Who would have thunk?? It worked! My windshield wipers are now free of the ice cocoon … but there is still a layer of ice on the hood of my car, which covers the windshield wiper fluid hole thingies. Oh well. At least it stopped snowing. It’s progress. Maybe by Friday I’ll be able to drive a fully functioning vehicle. Did I mention I don’t have to work on Friday? Fucking figures. The one day I can go somewhere safely, I have nowhere to be.
Oof… I guess this means I have to stop complaining about the cold. (Like that’s gonna happen *snort*)
Damn… stay safe!
Two words: windshield de-icer.
Okay wait, is de-icer one word or two?
gee thanks, ddl, why didn’t I think of that? LOL
Wende, maybe with all the hot air we’re blowing, we can make the world a warmer place
*snort*… as long as your only dissing me on YOUR blog.
yeah, it is a bit nippy here too. I mean we went to a park yesterday for hikeing and it is sooooo windy. Almost as bad as you have it … just almost LOL
Y’know at the point of “So I got in the car and went to QT, thinking I’d buy a new scraper and get gas.” … it would have been interesting to see the state of your windshields, could see out from it or did you drive on gut feeling? Think of us next time and take a pic!
Enough of the joking around; do take care of yourself in the bad weather and be safe!
It didn’t occur to me to grab the camera. This morning when I cleared the windshield, I could see. When I got on the highway (interstate, freeway lol) I got splattered and by the time I got to work I couldn’t see. I guess I’ll be stopping a lot and cleaning the windshield with Windex and paper towels til I can get the wiper motor thingie fixed
You are forgiven for forgetting your online world when the offline world is cranky & cold … just be careful.
I am getting worried if you are going to stop every so often on the highway (UK: motorway … yup there is another word for it!) and wipe your windshield.
Damn. Scissors. Puts a new spin on Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Like a dumbass… I went to the self-serve car wash today. I really needed to get the salt off my vehicle.
So, I put my money in and the fucking thing doesn’t do anything.
So, I talk to the guy who swears he put tape over it because it’s frozen.
And then he gave me some tokens and I drove to another stall and washed my vehicle. He came around the corner and put tons of tokens in for me and then told me to give him the hose thingy so I did and he washed it for me.
Then I took two steps back to get out of his way.
Then I fell on my ass on the ice.
I laughed. He tried not to.
I guess it was a little colder than I thought it was, huh?
Yeah, dipstick, it was 14 degrees out.
Uh huh… but the sun was shining.
Shut up.
Thanks so much for letting me get that off my chest here in your comments.
and oh, I forgot to write
$5 gift card? gee that is A LOT … good luck spending it
You people whine, but you don’t spend eight hours a day out working in 20 derees do you? Huh? huh?
Scott, it wasn’t 20 degrees. It was 12 degrees and that gives me the right to whine
lol I have a 20 degree cut off, too.
Natalie, I don’t even know what to say. I don’t know where to start. hehehehehehehe
Lizze, I won’t stop on the highway itself. I promise. I’ll pull off and go in to a business driveway. Feel better?
At least it wasn’t a kick in the ass lol
Never look a gift card in the mouth