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baden-baden | 09:24 Mon 01st Feb 2010 | ChatterBank
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Caught out a bit this morning by weather. No de-icer or scraper so used the brandy I found in the boot. Worked OK. Not sure how it got there. I used to use a credit card to scrape ice but quality is sadly lacking.
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Seriously? Brandy on a windscreen?? I'm almost crying thinking about the wastefulness of that!
09:27 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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I;d have been late and warmed car up for half hour rather than use the brandy
09:28 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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Try chocolate cake (I can see B00 having a fit right now) ;-p
09:29 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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!!!
09:30 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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Pour a load of slightly warm water over the screen - not hot or you could crack the screen.

This also has the benefit of freezing on the floor, and leaving an ice patch for your other half to slip on. You feel warmer just laughing as you drive away.
09:31 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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what's wrong with just water?
09:31 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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Now see?

PB's solution I like.
09:32 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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PB I like your style but it could mean you'd have to cook your own tea !
09:47 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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Cold water works too. Don't bother adding any hot water, especially if your hands are cold - you won't be able to detect (by touch) how warm it is. Couple of buckets of water out the cold tap (bonus of having an outside tap) and you're on your way....to work. Actually probably better to drink the brandy before hand and come up with some excuse why you can't get into work.
09:54 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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My tongue would have frozen to the screen.............
10:28 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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Just go to 'pound land', 'pound stretcher' or 'everything's a pound' and buy about 10 scrapers, that way you will always have at least 1 to hand!
10:32 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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so it wasn't mastercard then tut tut ,i would have had the brandy might have helped my cold
10:34 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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Cherry: So just add lemon, honey and hot water to the windscreen and have a hot toddy.
10:36 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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sounds like a plan lol where do you live baden
10:39 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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could be a little hot steve !! or are you going to test it first ;)
10:44 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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so why was there a bottle on brandy in your boot?

i found an unopened bottle of JD in a pool car once, that was a good day!
10:52 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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I once found a jar of Branston Pickle in the bottom of my handbag.....oh how the other people in the pub laughed......:-(
10:59 Mon 01st Feb 2010
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......until you produced a cheese sandwich from your jacket pocket (btw - I live in tropical Horsham!!)
11:53 Mon 01st Feb 2010

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