The frost on the windscreen comes off in one easy step as I remove the thin plastic sheet that I had attached to the car while the sun was still shining yesterday. I’m not normally this foresighted but I was annoyed at Mr Manbag for some long since forgotten slight while out shopping and so I wanted to send him unpacking. The rest of the car is winter-scene perfect, the pale blue-green paint like a Christmas album cover. The side windows are crusted with crystals which stream into the air as the scraper dislodges them from the glass. My fingerless gloves don’t seem so toasty now, though the dusting of ice seems to suit their green tone. The website said they were “spruce” which is both accurate and apt.
Inside the car the unheated leather seats are unforgiving; their cold penetrates my clothes and my bones. I pull my faux fur coat and faux wool scarf up around my neck in an attempt to keep the over-fresh air away from my skin. The once-clear windscreen is now covered in a mist-fine layer of ice as the moisture in the air touches it and freezes. I battle onwards with my vision barely impaired - sitting in a queue of traffic is the perfect defroster. We collectively edge forward like inchworms made metal, our exhaust fumes pluming in the air behind us.
I hope it snows.
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12 comments:
I hate frost. No matter how pretty you write about it :P
Me too. I just remember my chickens on my coop! I hope they won't frost to death!
I'd rather have frost than snow. With frost all I have to do is scrape my windows off. When it snows I have to pay attention to city parking bans so my car doesn't get towed and go to my parents house and help shovel and clean up and it's a hassle.
Yep, cold leather seats are awful to sit down on
Beautifully written. I wish it was summer though.
I love bum warming seats so much that I have been known to switch them on in summer. Such disgusting luxury!
I miss those frosty mornings - being here in Madeira. Nostalgia for a place I still call home I guess. There is a certain warmth about the English winter I can not describe. Maybe you could? Please? :)
currently where i go to school, we don't see frost. i miss it a lot, actually. feels like the appropriate time of year when there is frost. at home we have it, but that's three hours away.
So well described I'm shivering despite being curled on the sofa in a fluffy blanket! However I totally disagree with the last line - no snow. Just no. Period. I have to get to work anyway and it makes life so much more difficult ;)
Snow I have, but until I read this I didn't have, "We collectively edge forward like inchworms made metal..."
I chuck cold water over my car, quick, easy, and environmentally friendly. You get half way down the street and then your car mists up!.....roll on Summer!
Tracey
Heated seats are the best invention. No lie.
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