Unexpected agility test
Feb. 3rd, 2011 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkI had to stop for gas yesterday on the way to work, and I impulsively decided to go through the car wash to get rid of the impacted wheel-well chunks that were starting to impede turning the front wheels. I then drove 20 miles to work with the heat blasting, which I figured would be enough to dry out the doors. Wrong!
When I came out of work last night (with the temp a little above zero) I found every car door frozen tightly shut. Of course mine was the last car in the lot, at least on that side of the building. No matter how I pulled and tugged and cursed, the only orifice that could be pried open was the hatchback. So I did the only thing I could do, crawling in the hatchback and all the way up to the front seat. This is something I could have done easily 30 or 40 years ago, even encumbered as I was in winter clothes and boots. But I am not that limber any more, and I can't put much weight on my knees. It took me a good 10 minutes to inch my way the length of the car and squirm into the front seat.
Fortunately, once inside the car I was able to open the doors by kicking them open. Which was sort of satisfying, actually.
When I came out of work last night (with the temp a little above zero) I found every car door frozen tightly shut. Of course mine was the last car in the lot, at least on that side of the building. No matter how I pulled and tugged and cursed, the only orifice that could be pried open was the hatchback. So I did the only thing I could do, crawling in the hatchback and all the way up to the front seat. This is something I could have done easily 30 or 40 years ago, even encumbered as I was in winter clothes and boots. But I am not that limber any more, and I can't put much weight on my knees. It took me a good 10 minutes to inch my way the length of the car and squirm into the front seat.
Fortunately, once inside the car I was able to open the doors by kicking them open. Which was sort of satisfying, actually.
