in the middle of my 20 minute dinosaur-car de-icing workout this morning a lady trundled past who I recognised as local and said hello so I said hello back
she stopped at my car "oh the joys of motoring, eh?"
me: "yes"
lady: "couldn't you just pour some warm water over your car?"
me: "no, it's too cold, it would crack the glass or just freeze over straight away"
lady: "couldn't you put something like a blanket over the windscreen on a night so you don't need to do that?"
me: "yes you could but we've done that before and it got pinched"
lady: "couldn't you get some of that de-ice spray"
me: "yes you could but I don't really like using chemicals if I can help it"
lady: "you could hold a lighter near the ice, that might melt it"
me:
what kind of chit chat is that? I'd rather have talked about the weather!