The Daily Peeve / Rant

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I really enjoy strategizing, five years as a litigation paralegal, I guess. If there any details you can share to help us research strategy, then please feel free to do so!

I won’t post details on an open board like this, but I will PM you, just for grins, to kick around the issue. I’m seeing a line in the sand I can draw coming in the near future.

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Tybee your SLN mailbox is full.

[Tybee]

Sorry, just fixed it. I hope.

[rosarugosa]

Winter. The ice was so thick it broke the ice scraper for my car.

ETA Went to check the filters as I have service today. The car is so frozen up I could not get the hood to pop. Could not even see the latch. So I could not check the engine filter. Accessed the cabin filter and some animal has been making a nest in there. Found acorn shells, leaves, etc and the filter itself is chewed up. So they will probably have to open up the engine area to clean that out. And I couldn't even get the glove box back in place. I want to DIY but I am just too incompetent. It is frustrating. I guess I will have to shell out. I think a garage with an impermeable concrete floor would prevent this, but that is way out of my means. A couple years ago DS had a mouse nest in the same area of his car.

It's always been a sore spot for me that I cannot even find a good scraper/brush. They all seem to be pieces of crap that are designed to break within a year or two of normal use.

[Tradd]

It's always been a sore spot for me that I cannot even find a good scraper/brush. They all seem to be pieces of crap that are designed to break within a year or two of normal use.

I have a telescoping snow brush/scaper that is about 10 years old and great.

You're supposed to run the car as long as needed to melt even a corner of the ice so you can then start scraping it off. If you're too green or too cheap to let your car run, then don't complain about how hard it is to scrape the ice off or your broken scraper.

[Alan]

I have a telescoping snow brush/scaper that is about 10 years old and great.

You're supposed to run the car as long as needed to melt even a corner of the ice so you can then start scrapping it off.

I probably have the same scraper/brush. I bought it several years ago after buying a pickup truck that's tall and wide enough that I simply can't reach the center of the windshield with a standard scraper. It still didn't help me much after Thursday's ice storm which layered about 1/2" of ice on the entire truck, which was then covered with another 2" of frozen sleet and topped with about 4 inches of snow.

When I went out to clean it all off on Saturday, the doors were all frozen shut and it took me quite a bit of scraping to get the majority of the snow and some of the sleet/ice off as well as getting one door open, then I started the engine, set the defroster on high and went back inside to let it do it's work. After about 20 minutes I went back out and was able to open the other three doors although not easily and I hopped inside to turn on wipers. While I was there I tried to lower the drivers side window which simply wouldn't move. Although that didn't keep the electric opener mechanism from moving freely, the window actually separated from the mechanism and remained frozen in place. So now I have all 4 windows and doors defrosted although the drivers window is off it's track, dammit!

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Alan, a rant for sure!

The newbies here in the city are having their cars stolen left and right when they start them to warm them up and then go back into their house. We had three reports on Nextdoor over the past few days. They can’t believe the criminals are out when it’s cold and snowy.

Experienced city criminals know commuter time in the morning is a really good time to patrol dense city neighborhoods and find the cars running with no one inside.

[Tradd]

Alan, a rant for sure!

The newbies here in the city are having their cars stolen left and right when they start them to warm them up and then go back into their house. We had three reports on Nextdoor over the past few days. They can’t believe the criminals are out when it’s cold and snowy.

Experienced city criminals no commuter time in the morning is a really good time to patrol dense city neighborhoods and find the cars running with no one inside.

Haha. Idiots! You sit in your car and play on your phone or listen to the radio while the windows are defrosting. Anyone who leaves their car running without anyone in it deserves to get their car stolen. Stupid is as stupid does.

[herbgeek]

Experienced city criminals no commuter time in the morning is a really good time to patrol dense city neighborhoods and find the cars running with no one inside.

I'm in a rural area and even I take the key back inside when I warm up the car. The key just needs to be in close proximity to start, but not to run. They can steal my car, but once they turn off the ignition they'd be screwed.

Funny (not to spouse) story: I usually keep my car key in my jacket pocket. Early on with this car, we went to the airport to pick up my nephew. Spouse dropped me off, so I could be at the gate and call when we needed to be picked up to avoid the high parking charge. Spouse went down the road and parked in some random lot, and the business wanted him to move his car but I had the key and we didn't realize that. He calls on my cell to tell me that, but I can't do anything about that because he has the car, not me.
Luckily he was next to a car rental lot, so pretended he was a customer and got on their shuttle bus for a ride back to the airport to retrieve the key. And a different shuttle bus to get back to his car. We now make sure the driver has the physical key.

[pinkytoe]

cars stolen left and right

Ditto here. I just read that our state has the highest auto theft in the nation. Why Colorado I wonder?