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?
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Dec 15, 2008 4:43:10 pm PST #6295 of 10002
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.
aurelia - Dec 15, 2008 5:04:37 pm PST #6299 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
It's too cold for me to try anything tonight. My fingers freeze within minutes even with gloves on. I'll try tomorrow and walk to the nearest drugstore for deicing stuff if I have to. Anything else I could use is in the car.
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."
Ha! It's not the locks. I could hear the doors unlocking. It's the seal around the door. I've been having trouble with that even when it's just cold rain.
In my old car I could push the seat backs down from the trunk, but in this one you have to pull them open from inside the cab. I guess that saves me the spectacle of entering my car through the trunk.
Cass - Dec 15, 2008 5:12:57 pm PST #6300 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.
Ha!
In her (and my) defense, she knows there's no way in hell I drive in frozen if there are options.
I guess that saves me the spectacle of entering my car through the trunk.
Lost comedy gold though...
sarameg - Dec 15, 2008 5:22:10 pm PST #6301 of 10002
Um, btdt. Car was snowed in, it was easiest to unearth the trunk (to get to the shovel!!!) and shove a lot of the snow off by opening doors. But that was the Presidents' day snow, which had the National Guard patrolling for people in distress. It was insane. And I spent most of a day uncovering my car.
aurelia - Dec 15, 2008 5:22:23 pm PST #6302 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
So, since I couldn't go out tonight I should make brownies instead. Right?
sarameg - Dec 15, 2008 5:23:34 pm PST #6303 of 10002
Just use 4 oz sticks.
Kat - Dec 15, 2008 5:23:44 pm PST #6304 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
YES to brownies!