• Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
    20·
    11 months ago

    You’re already late for work.

    Rushing won’t help that. Speeding won’t help that. Aggressively accelerating and slamming on brakes won’t help that.

    By the time I’m late for work, it’s no more annoying than seeing it on any other morning where I’m still going to work, and still have to scrape at ice/frost.

    Maybe it’s just not my personal compounding annoyance, because I certainly understand multiple minor annoyances piling on making you pissed.

    Lpt: boil water at night before bed, so you can use it to melt the ice off the windshield. Just pop it in the freezer to keep it until morning.

    • toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      11 months ago

      Some jobs arent forvivving. At the coal mije i work at, being late can mean a permanent reduction in your pay. Its the only job that pays anything close to a living wage here, so you cant just quit and find a new one. You either get there on time or explain to your husband why he cant cook the nice meals he likes to and has to buy ramen.

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
        1·
        11 months ago

        That’s fair, I totally understand that some employers are assholes about someone being late even if they’ve been on time for 27 years.

        But when you’re already late… What can you do? Being there 2 minutes later won’t help when your employer is like that.

  • HurlingDurling@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    A towel over the windshield the night before instantly clears any ice or snow when you remove it. It’s faster than any scraping or product, and you don’t waste fuel warming up the car.

    • OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org
      1·
      11 months ago

      Until you get a night that was supposed to be snow but instead was freezing rain, and now instead of just ice hard frozen onto your windshield you have ice and a towel, which is infinitely more horrible?

      • HurlingDurling@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        You would still need to break the ice around it, but it will come off in one piece. We don’t get snow much around where I live, but sure, as shit get ice and the towel has helped immensely.