Yawn. It’s morning in America. Gotta get up. Rise and shine. Feet on floor. Toothbrush in mouth.
Last night I played a game of trivia over at Brown’s; apparently the team A Few Cards Short of a Deck just nabbed their sixth consecutive trivia win, much congrats to them. As I drove back to the Town and Village, icy freezing rain was falling from the sky. So I knew that my morning routine would probably include some ice scraping.
So this morning, I looked outside to see what my morning commute would be.
And I saw the Blackbird – coated with a sheet of ice, looking like a General Motors glazed donut.
Urgh. Scraping time.
But I’m not complaining.
Here’s why.
Last year, when I did an NBL Canada road trip to games in Ontario – the league has teams in Oshawa and in London – I stopped at a Canadian Tire store to purchase some goodies. Nothing major – a new pair of gloves, a couple of oilcan-shaped coin banks – and then I saw a red cone-shaped device called a Scrape-A-Round.
The Scrape-A-Round works better than expected, and it only cost me a couple of dollars. How good is this thing, you ask?
Last winter, one of my neighbors was trying to scrape the ice off her windshield. She had one of those little foreign cars, the kind of car one would call a “chick car.” I pulled the Scrape-A-Round out of my car, walked over to hers, and without a word, quickly de-iced her car windows, the ice flying off the surface in a snowy dance. Good deed for the day. Random act of kindness.
I like this little Scrape-A-Round ice scraper. It stores quickly (I usually keep it behind the left rear passenger seat’s headrest) and it’s durable. Don’t get me wrong, I do have a long brush to wipe snow off my car in case of a big snowstorm. But when it’s icy in the morning… and I need a clean windshield, free of ice and snow… this Scrape-A-Round is a fantastic item.
Just another reason why #chuckishappy – and Chuck likes being happy.
Chuck The Writer 
do you get a commission from the Scrape a round sales?
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Nope. That’s an unsolicited testimonial for the product. Due to FTC regulations regarding blogs, I neither received any financial benefit nor requested any financial benefit for mentioning the product in my blog.
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I’ve never seen these before. Do you know if they are available locally? (Without getting in trouble with the FTC).
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Try your local automotive supply store, or go to the link I provided in the article.
The thing with the FTC is so that people who read the blog don’t think that an unsolicited blog testimonial is actually an advertisement – i.e., that I would receive a kickback if any of those things were sold. Some people have complained in the past that blogs who review products favorably might have received some “under the table” money from the product manufacturers in exchange for a favorable review. So the FTC cracked down on it. I have no problem telling anyone where to find those Scrape-A-Rounds; just understand that I’m doing it of my own free volition and not so that I can get a year’s supply of Scrape-A-Rounds delivered to the Town and Village.
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