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Posted December 9, 2005 • Comments Off on Here’s what a genius I can be sometimes

It was supposed to snow, like, five inches last night. It only snowed three, but obviously I didn’t know that. So before I went inside when I got home last night, I took the crappy old blanket out of my trunk and laid it over my windshield. It’s longer than the car is wide, so it not only covered the whole windshield but also the side mirrors.

This morning, I pulled it off in one fell swoop, and lo and behold my windshield was totally clear. My side mirrors were free of ice. It saved me probably ten minutes of scraping and shoveling. It looked ridiculous all night, I’m sure, the car with the red and white “ACAPULCO” blanket spread over it (I’ve never been there; the blanket came with my first car) and the windshield wipers pulled up like antennae, but this morning I just wanted everyone to see how well it worked. Unfortunately I don’t think one person saw.

Granted there’s now a big heavy messy wet blanket in the trunk of my car, but I can deal with that.