I did something stupid yesterday
Not really Darwin award stupid, but I thought I should share it anyway.

I left a little bit early yesterday, as there was a lot of snow here, and got down to my car to find it, as expected, covered in snow. The windscreen especially, as it had experienced a slump from the roof too.

"OK", thought I. "I'll fire it up, then clear the snow off before I drive off."

So I opened the driver's door, dumped my laptop bag on the passenger seat and sat half inside the car with the door open and one leg on the ground outside. Then I put the ignition card in (it's a Renault, hence it doesn't have a normal key) and I was pressing the Start button, a little voice in my brain said, "Oh, I wonder if I switched off the wip..."

I hadn't. Next thing, the windscreen wipers moved several metric fucktonnes of snow off the windscreen, and because I had my leg in the way I couldn't close the door. Most of it landed in the door pocket. Some of it ended up on the footwell. Some even landed on my leg. Virtually none of it reached the ground.

So I had to spend a while digging it all out of the pocket and clearing up the mess. I did feel a bit of a fanny.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 12:19, Reply)