…for me anyway. Today was an average day, nothing unusual. I got up at the same time, had breakfast and the usual morning business…and then it happened. I walked outside and there was a chill in the air. The grass crunched beneath my feet and then I noticed something…strange.
My car which I had bought a couple of months back didn’t look the same. It was white. Covered in ice and frost. This is the first time it has happened to me as I only started driving a couple of months back. I casually got into my car and put the heating on, thinking the heat would melt the ice within minutes and I would be off on my merry way. But I waited a while and nothing was happening. I decided to put the window wipers on, it only slid across the frost which wasn’t very helpful. I tried to get the windows down but they were jammed.
I sat there for a while. I had to pick a friend up and I was already a couple of minutes late. I decided to get some cold water and pour it over the windows as I had seen someone do it before. It cleared the front screen, but the side windows were still iced up. I had to go otherwise I would have been late. I started driving and when I came to the end of the road I realised I couldn’t actually see if a car was coming or not. So I sat there for a few more minutes and eventually got the window down so I had a good view even though I was shivering like a cow.
As the journey continued the ice removed itself from my car and all was well. I have now set my alarm 10 minutes earlier in case I have to so the same again tomorrow. Winter is my favourite time of the year, but sometimes it can be bloody annoying!
