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IT'S OUT!! IT'S OUT!

My car had nice layers: ice-snow-ice. So clearing it was super-easy, once I smashed the surface layer it would slide off in tectonic plates. Whee!

Yeah, I love it when that happens.

Relatedly, I recently had about an inch of ice and dense snow on my car. I cleared off the windows but left the rest of the car covered. So as the engine heat started melting the ice on the hood and while I was driving about 45 mph, the entire sheet of ice on the hood suddenly flipped up and smashed against my windshield with a noise so loud I was surprised the windshield didn't shatter. The ice shelf did shatter, and pieces (some bigger than one foot square) went flying all over the place. Some hit cars driving next to me.

I don't think I'll do that again....

It's vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered waffle cone pieces and caramel

YUM!!!! I love waffle cone!

Since I haven't actually looked at my paystub in mumbledymumbledy months I may be wrong, but I get paid a week after the pay period ends. So when I get paid this friday (2/16), it'll be for the 1/29 -2/9 period. But then, I get paid every two weeks, regardless of where we are in the month. That only addresses your second to last question, though.

I hate it when the cars driving in front of me haven't been fully cleared off. Not fun driving 65 on 95 when a sheet of icy snow comes flying at you!

So I guess I'm wondering - is this sort of issue common? Is getting a paycheck five days after the end of the pay period fall within the range of normal business practices? (I'm guessing it does.) When these sort of payroll changes happen, is it common for the business to compensate their employees in some way for the change?

Our paycheck schedule has changed slightly a couple of times, probably for similar reasons, but now it's set so we always get paid on the 5th & 20th. And sadly, no, I can't imagine getting compensated for that. Do you absolutely *have* to pay rent on the 1st? I'd try to work the landlord instead if you're on good terms.

I hate it when the cars driving in front of me haven't been fully cleared off. Not fun driving 65 on 95 when a sheet of icy snow comes flying at you!

Yeah. I see the error of my ways. I felt lucky I wasn't the victim of road rage or profanity or anything.

I don't think I'll do that again....

You better not! I curse madly at the people who clear barely enough to see and then strew their debris down the road with abandon.

Strega got the Devil's Kevlar, I got Slushee.

I felt lucky I wasn't the victim of road rage or profanity or anything.

You may have been the victim of profanity.

What's really scary is when the ice & snow starts flying off the tops of the big tractor trailers.

Do you absolutely *have* to pay rent on the 1st? I'd try to work the landlord instead if you're on good terms

This is a good idea. If you have a good relationship with your landlord, I can't seem him/her minding getting paid on the 5th--it's only four days later, after all.