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Chain your wheels in Ice
- Thread starter Happy_Hamer
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A local window/glass company offers a special winter deal every year. A special ice scraper for windshields with carbide/diamond serrated scraping edges. Absolutely guaranteed to remove the most stubborn ice from any automotive windshield! This scraper comes with a three foot wooden handle with a 'D' shaped 'shovel' handle on the end. For a small nominal yearly fee, they offer to replace windshields for 50% off if you buy two of their scrapers. A small warning sticker advises not to use this scraper to clean teeth as it can remove enamel.
Now, is that a deal, or is that a deal?
- 'Doc
Now, is that a deal, or is that a deal?
- 'Doc
Reminds me of the trash truck I once saw in Florida that had a sign on the side that said......"Free snow removal, and we cater weddings"......
Years ago my sister lived down there, the first winter they had a frost, and my sister was the only one on her street with a windshield ice scraper....she became the most popular girl in the nieghborhood that morning......
The two bigest problems we face here on the mid Atlantic coast are....
#1 - We really don't get that much snow fall, I've actually gone through a couple of winters in a row without seeing one snow flake fall, and then the following winter will bring 2 or 3 good storms. People around these parts don't deal with snow & ice covered roads like someone in Maine, or Montana does, and when we do get it, they just don't know how to act.....
#2 - 20 years ago when SUV's first started to become popular with the Soccer Mom's and Yuppie Business types, they had...(and still have)....no clue as to the capability of 4 wheel drive. They think because it gives them traction to go, it also gives them the same traction to stop.....and we all know it doesn't work that way. The vast majority of winter storm related traffic accidents here involve an SUV of one form or another...
However I do get a certain level of comic relief watching some clown in a Mustang, or one of those hot rodded little Jap cars trying to climb an ice covered bridge and going nowhere's fast.....
#1 - We really don't get that much snow fall, I've actually gone through a couple of winters in a row without seeing one snow flake fall, and then the following winter will bring 2 or 3 good storms. People around these parts don't deal with snow & ice covered roads like someone in Maine, or Montana does, and when we do get it, they just don't know how to act.....
#2 - 20 years ago when SUV's first started to become popular with the Soccer Mom's and Yuppie Business types, they had...(and still have)....no clue as to the capability of 4 wheel drive. They think because it gives them traction to go, it also gives them the same traction to stop.....and we all know it doesn't work that way. The vast majority of winter storm related traffic accidents here involve an SUV of one form or another...
However I do get a certain level of comic relief watching some clown in a Mustang, or one of those hot rodded little Jap cars trying to climb an ice covered bridge and going nowhere's fast.....
Just an FYI for those who have PMed me that there is nothing wrong with driving a Ford Mustang,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
The Mustang is REAR WHEEL DRIVE and the chains are on the FRONT WHEELS! :headbang
The Mustang is REAR WHEEL DRIVE and the chains are on the FRONT WHEELS! :headbang
You mean to tell me that you actually had to explain that to some folks here........
Hell....I just assumed everyone knew that already.....goes to show you what happens when you assume......:blush:
We have a septic truck around here that has a sign on it that states that the truck is used to haul milk when business is slow.
People like that shouldn't be allowed to HAVE A CAR PERIOD. Send'em back to common sense school first...
Ron