How to do winter, part 3

Last week I giggled at the aisles and aisles of "Winter car care" products for sale in my local supermarket.

De-icer, grit, insulating blankets, scrapers... none of these words exist in my vocabulary.

This morning I realised they now do. Thick frost encrusted my car from the door handles up.

And no de-icer or scraper in sight.

A quick trip back to the apartment to have a mini freakout and I emerged armed and ready with... a plastic kitchen spatula.

I'm sure I amused the daylights out of the passing residents watching me shave the ice off my windscreen, sortof like I was cleaning off a barbeque. All without gloves, mind you...

After a full minute of scraping.

Quick! Get in the car and start driving before it just ices over again!

Made a classic rookie mistake by thinking a bit of windscreen wiper and windscreen wiper fluid action once I was in the car would help things along.
Frozen windscreen + frozen windscreen wipers + windscreen wiper fluid = new thick coating of gloopy soapy ice smeared all over the windscreen.

Start over.