A cold, icy Thursday

Yesterday, I went out to clean my sister's windshield off because it was covered in ice. I was just being a nice sister. Another student and my self were cleaning off her car, then we were going to clean off his car and go back inside where it was warm. Luckily, he had the great idea of turning this into a ministry opportunity. We started on the car beside my sisters and continued on to the rest of the parking lot. That lead to a few other joining us and pretty soon we scraped almost every car in the parking lots windshield. Some people were headed to their cars with a pleasant surprise waiting for them, others came to their car and we hadn't gotten there yet, so we stop the car we were doing and did theirs while they searched for their ice scrapers to help us. One of the people that I enjoyed helping was a lady who's car wasn't very covered at all. It took me about two minuets to scrape what little ice that was on it off. She was telling me that her husband was on HWY 65 and that he was stuck there and that they had a Christmas party that night and she wasn't sure what they were going to do especially since the weather was so nasty. I enjoyed hearing her story while she went to find her ice scraper that mysteriously eluded her. She tried to give me money after I did so little work, but that's not why we were out there. I was just trying to be a good neighbor and help people out. I know how much I hate scraping my windshield, especially after it's been a long day and I can't find my ice scraper. Oh, note on the subject of not finding and ice scraper, my roommate never seems to have one or can't find it in her car and she used a cd's jewel case. It tears the case up, but it works if there isn't a lot of ice. I hope all of the people we scraped windshields for got home safe and next time it's icy, help someone else out after you have scraped your own windshield. Have a great Christmas and stay safe as the weather gets nasty.