… and what is the big deal if your windscreen is frosted up”? You ask. This is different, I tried to explain. I have never seen anything like this before. It was solid, I underestimated the task before me. I started out with my tiny winy complimentary scraper. As you can expect, it did absolutely nothing, it didn’t even scrap the surface of the frost. The frost stood solid as Mount Zion that can not be moved. I was running late, so I quickly grabbed the bad boy of scraping, the all singing, all dancing telescopic scraper, extendable hand, squeegee and all, nothing happened! I progessed to the Swedish yellow scarper, heavy duty Neoprene holder with the diamond polished scarping edges. Forget it! I really shouldn’t have bothered.
After some time, I gave up all scrappers, threw them away, opened my boot and got out the de-icer, started with the supermarket brand cheap buy one get one free blue solution, poured it all over. I am sure, I need not tell you that nothing happened. I moved on to the branded stuff, poured, sprayed, squirted every branded de icer you can think of over the windscreen, the car and everywhere. At this stage my car was sitting in a pool of blue foamy stuff, everywhere was slippery and I was tripping, but the windscreen was still as frosted as ever.
In desperation, I did the unthinkable, no rational mind would have behaved the way I did, desperation can only be the explanation, I saw what seem to be a hairline crack in the frosted windscreen, so I got out my credit card, thinking I could slide it through and break things up. I am not sure who came up with the crazy idea, but I read about it somewhere. So I started hacking off with the card, I need not tell you what happened, or rather did not happen! Of course the frost did not bulge, but rather my fingers started freezing up as the cold worked its way from my fingers to my hand up my arm and to the rest of my body. I was very cold, cold indeed and this thing was working it’s way to my heart! My heart was getting cold!!!!When this realisation hit me, I stopped! Packed away everything, I mean everything and I went indoor. None of my human effort was going to remove this frost. As long as it is winter, cold and white, this frost was going nowhere. As I sat indoor to ponder my situation, I was made to understand that only the sun can melt this frost. That this is seasonal, no matter how cold, how hard, how long and how white the winter is, the winter season will come to an end and summer will commence, the sun will come out, no frost can withstand the bright yellow burning sun, it must thaw!
And so the sun came out, my windscreen thawed and I drove off happily. The sun will come out for you!
Beautiful Ivory 