This morning sucked. It was warm and rainy on Sunday so I got up blisfully unaware that the temperature had dropped by at least 40 degrees. I walked outside in a light coat and leather gloves, coffee in hand, and was like ‘damn! cold!’ Then I discovered my door was frozen shut, spent 10 minutes trying to prise it open to no avail, ran back inside to get tools thinking ‘damn it’s really cold out! I ended up spending 20 minutes working at the door with a claw hammer and a screwdriver, meanwhile my hands froze into claws. I didn’t damage the car, amazingly, and it did start.
Why don’t I have de-icer you ask? I do. It was trapped in the backseat of the car ;-( I don’t think it would have helped though, the ice that was causing the door to stick was down in the weather stripping.
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I had an experience very similiar this Monday morning. Rained all weekend, water got down in the door, and froze. I was able to open the door, but discovered that I could not close it. The catch mechanism was stuck open. I also went back in the house, but only for a screwdriver. No hammer needed for this job. After some tweaking (and a few curses as it was very cold) things were back to normal, and I was on my way.
I nominate spring as the season we should be in now. I have had enough winter.
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bah. I want spring too, it is not normally this cold at this time of the year. Spring does not really make it into Maine until April, still by now we do normally have flashes of the warmer weather to come, and it is definitely not usually down into the negative temps.
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This weekend I am going to shave my goatee, that will be the end of winter and herald in springtime.
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