My car doors are frozen shut.
Can you get an extension cord and a hairdryer? You might be able to use that to de-ice them.
Nice acronym, Mom!
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Calli - Dec 15, 2008 4:12:02 pm PST #6289 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
aurelia - Dec 15, 2008 4:15:59 pm PST #6290 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I'm parked way down the block.
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2008 4:18:29 pm PST #6291 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm scared to engage creepy man. It makes them sticky.
aurelia - Dec 15, 2008 4:22:46 pm PST #6292 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Sticky and creepy is a bad combination.
Amy - Dec 15, 2008 4:30:58 pm PST #6293 of 10002
Because books.
Maybe a cup of hot water, aurelia?
Cass - Dec 15, 2008 4:42:10 pm PST #6294 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Oooh, my mom emailed me a whole list of "things she learned growing up in Chicago where it gets cold" and there was something about locks in it. Let me go find it.
sarameg - Dec 15, 2008 4:43:10 pm PST #6295 of 10002
Sticky and creepy is a bad combination.
Maybe a cup of hot water, aurelia?
Ahahaha!
My boss gave me alcoholic chocolates. Maybe he knew this week was gonna turn ugly?
Cass - Dec 15, 2008 4:45:56 pm PST #6296 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Her advice: "Btw, if it really gets that cold, it's possible your car won't start or that the door locks will be frozen and you won't be able to unlock them."
Well that was spectacularly less than helpful.
*facepalm*
tommyrot - Dec 15, 2008 4:51:03 pm PST #6297 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You can buy deicing stuff that you squirt into car locks (I think it's some sort of alcohol). Perhaps you could squirt a bunch of this on the stuck parts of the door?
It'd be better than hot water, anyway, because if the hot water doesn't work, you're now worse off.
I've gotten frozen car doors unstuck a few times with the "brute force" method, for lo, I am manly....
sarameg - Dec 15, 2008 4:52:18 pm PST #6298 of 10002
Antifreeze? I used to have a pocket deicer for the locks (which I need to replace!), but the plastic scraper used as a prybar worked for the wee icestorms we had.