January 18, 2007
a little bit embarrassing.
this morning marks the end of...
schools are opening, as are roads. the poor icicles are snaggletooth drippy things. i just came hom from driving helen to the bus stop, where she is now on her way to school for a belated beginning of the semester.
sylvia, the car, as you may remember, looked like this the other day. remarkably, she was still under a good half inch of ice this morning.
i am a northern girl. i am prepared for ice. i have always kept TWO ice scrapers in my car at all times, along with an extra gallon of windshield wiper fluid. somewhere in the move, however, BOTH scrapers have gone missing. i am utterly scraperless. helen, the smart one, came up with an embarrassing, though surprisingly effective solution: a wooden spatula.
yes, ladies and gentleman, i was humbled this morning just one more time. it wasn't enough that this light dusting has kept me indoors since sunday night. oh no. this morning, i was forced to stand outside and scrape the ice off my car with a wooden cooking utensil. oh god, please no. i will never become a real texan willingly.
my friend jess posted a myspace bulletin about texans and their makeshift scrapers. here are a few of the other crafty implements:
thor-a ruler
megan- cd case.
amerykah----a metal noise maker from new years.
sarah--junk mail
skippy--my drivers license
dirtstar --plastic thingy you use to get the bubbles out of wallpaper
jess herself reports: "One lady had her shoe off and was beating the ice off the windshield with it! "
i must ask, dear reader, what would YOU use if you had never heard of had no access to an ice scraper?
in other news, i was officially "productive" yesterday. not only did i reach 1060 words of better writing than i've been able to pull off in months, i also completed my first assignment of the new semester on time.
today, it's a shift back to normal. in an hour, i'll drive my lazy ass over to maria's, where she will make up for lost time, i am sure. and then it's back to work today. oh, funs.
thus endeth the cabin fever week of winter blitz.
thank you for coming.
definitely cd cases. preferably demo cds.
Posted by: flibbityflu at January 18, 2007 11:12 PMyes i agree.. Cd cases.. Ive used cassette cases as i can get better traxion!
Posted by: natalie at January 19, 2007 1:32 PMwhen i was a "texan," i always used a cd case! now in the absence of a scraper, i use the handy folding snow shovel that lives among the blankets, boots and dog toys in the back of the car! "oh canada, i stand on guard for thee..."
Posted by: val at January 19, 2007 3:58 PMI have been in TX for 8 years now and never had need of an ice scraper. I am from upstate NY, though, and I was always driving someone else's car there so never knew where an ice scraper might be found, or the car was so full of crap it was an inherent hopeless battle to even look. So I have never used anything other than a cassette case. This is pre CD time, folks. When I moved to VA and finally had a car of my own, again a cassette case was always most readily at hand.
Posted by: maxine at January 21, 2007 12:28 PMwell this post is long past but i thought id throw in a late one..
i used a tampon didnt work so well
but it did absorb the ice water