Frosty Car Tips
Now, this may be close to the most boring thing you've ever read.
(Unless you're really weird and read St. Thomas Aquinas. He was canonized for writing one of the most incomprehensible, make your eyes glaze over and finally pop out their sockets book known to mankind. It's even got a catchy title..."Summa Theologica." Poor people a long time ago died early from disease and starvation-educated people died early from boredom.)
But I think what I have to say here is very instructional.
Those of us stupid enough to live in places that get cold during the winter may have noticed we've had some frosty mornings this past week.
For the past few days I've had to warm up my car and scrape the windows before I could leave for my thoroughly enjoyable, fulfilling, and high paying job.
After a couple of mornings of this happy ritual, I noticed that my neighbors two cars had no frost on them whatsoever. Same driveway, same temperature, and I got the frost while they got none.
Today, I FINALLY figured out what was up. My neighbors are from California, and THEIR cars still have California plates on them.
Obvious Conclusion: Old Man Winter is sorta losing it (it happens to lots of old folks) and thinks my neighbors are still in California so he dumps all of the frostiness on MY car because of my stupid Massachusetts plates.
Duh. I can't believe I didn't catch this sooner.
So I was thinking of covering my license plates overnight with fake "California" plates (I'll just make them with a piece of paper and tape them over my real ones) and see if Old Man Winter skips my car too.
I'll let you know how it works out.
(Unless you're really weird and read St. Thomas Aquinas. He was canonized for writing one of the most incomprehensible, make your eyes glaze over and finally pop out their sockets book known to mankind. It's even got a catchy title..."Summa Theologica." Poor people a long time ago died early from disease and starvation-educated people died early from boredom.)
But I think what I have to say here is very instructional.
Those of us stupid enough to live in places that get cold during the winter may have noticed we've had some frosty mornings this past week.
For the past few days I've had to warm up my car and scrape the windows before I could leave for my thoroughly enjoyable, fulfilling, and high paying job.
After a couple of mornings of this happy ritual, I noticed that my neighbors two cars had no frost on them whatsoever. Same driveway, same temperature, and I got the frost while they got none.
Today, I FINALLY figured out what was up. My neighbors are from California, and THEIR cars still have California plates on them.
Obvious Conclusion: Old Man Winter is sorta losing it (it happens to lots of old folks) and thinks my neighbors are still in California so he dumps all of the frostiness on MY car because of my stupid Massachusetts plates.
Duh. I can't believe I didn't catch this sooner.
So I was thinking of covering my license plates overnight with fake "California" plates (I'll just make them with a piece of paper and tape them over my real ones) and see if Old Man Winter skips my car too.
I'll let you know how it works out.
posted by Bemisdown at 6:09 PM
13 Comments:
Frost.
It was so cold here this morning, I had to give in and wear my winter coat, so I'm intrigued...if I can somehow make Mother Nature think I'm from California, my walk to work will be warmer??
Hmmm.
"Hypothermia and exposure killed James Kim as he trekked through wilderness trying to find help for his snowbound family, officials said Thursday. A coroner could not determine exactly when the father-of-two died, but it's known that Kim walked more than 10 miles in what officials called a "superhuman" effort to save his wife and daughters after they had been stranded for a week."
--CNN.com
Cake,
I haven't done my experiment yet, but I'll be sure to let you know how it works out with CARS....
Not sure about walkers, but if it works with cars, then we're onto something.
Clinky,
Thanks for the pick-me-up news story!
Ralph,
Your mother's calling you.....
What don't you just park your car in a heated garage like I do?
Nooprah,
Why did I know you would ask me that?
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You can borrow our plates if the other ones don't work.
NoOprah's just a little cheeky, ain't he.
Cake,
Oh yeah....he's cheeky alright. Especially in those Victoria Secret seamless panties.
I don't WEAR the seamless panties...I use them to wipe off the frost from hot chicks cars.
Have we ever met?
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