Necessity is a mother (of invention)
December 11, 2009
St. Charles County, MO
by Kris Kolk
Perhaps you dashed from the house this morning, running a little late. Same here.
If the car wasn’t sleeping in a toasty garage, you were probably faced with annoying snowflake-shaped frost stuck on the windshield. Everybody knows that frost laughs at windshield wipers and is more frustrating to remove than day-old chili queso.
Ice scraper in the car? Surely you jest. That’s like keeping sun block in the beach bag or
batteries in the flashlight.
Not everyone was a Boy Scout.
(In defense of procrastination…sometimes really cool ideas result from imperfect conditions. Duct tape was probably invented for less than ideal circumstances. While it is common practice to use nail polish to fix a run in pantyhose, you know, duct tape would work.)
Anyway, it was one of those mornings when time wasn’t on my side. And then…I had to endure a taunting from sarcastic windshield frost.
You know what works well in a scraping emergency? A box of gum. Not the gum…just the box part. Resourcefulness strikes back at frost and a ticking clock to boot.
Soon, a dusting of frost will seem like a polite acquaintance. It’s almost time to scrape packed snow and ice from the car. Yes, this year I’ll think ahead.
Where’s an old CD case?
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