To think pouring water on your icy car is just selfish?

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Just fell on my face outside a neighbour who must have done this early morning.

So a stream of ice running across the pavement to the road which I didn't see

I fell hard. Am OK but if I were elderly or more fragile I could have bad injuries.

At least salt the pavement after!

Traffic is dreadful so every minute counts

And would ya look at that....

You may consider my job super important when your house if burning down or you are stuck upside down in your car and need cut out.

Clearly the irony that your frozen windscreen water may cause a car to be upside down has passed you by.

And fwiw, "I might save your life one day" does not justify you being a dick. HTH

I too do this. I have an hour commute at 6am so not keen on spending 15 mns defrosting when thus will likely add another 15mns stick in traffic but as its been said, the cat is parked on the road and the water is minimal just under where the car was which pedestrians would have no reason to be.

Apart from if they were crossing the road? It's so dangerous.

Scraping a car does not take 15 minutes either!

@Eliza9917 I never knew that! We've just bought a holiday let home by the sea and when people at home were saying they had thick frost and I was saying we had the same temps but no frost, that's why then?

@Charlie97 I don't know, I assumed it would help but someone else replied to me on here that they had frost.

We get frost and ice but I assumed it took more for it to settle. I think last week is the first frost we've had this winter.

But the sea freezes here too, it froze last year and Whitstable was frozen last week or the week before.

Jug ready in hall

(Runs for cover)

I do this daily, I pour about a mug on the windscreen and it's on my drive. Literally no water goes on the floor anyway... If anyone thinks im being selfish and says anything to me ill throw the water at them I don't use chemicals like De icer and can't sit in my car in the cold as have arthritis.

I used to live on a street that was sloped. Chap across the road liked to wash his car in winter. Cue water running across the road and leaving a thick layer of ice across the width of the road. More than once.

Most households had more than one car, so one would be parked on the roadside. My car got hit once by someone sliding across that ice (we weren't on the gritting route). I made damn sure I included the bit in my claim about the chap washing his car and the water freezing on the road. Hopefully, the car washer got his insurance hit too.

I'm glad I read this post, it didn't even cross my mind that de-icing my car this way would cause an injury to someone else.
Sometimes the obvious just needs pointing out to you.