Some thing. That I have.
I have one less job to do!
Published on January 19, 2008 By Cedarbird In Current Events
This is another work one...because I have no life outside of school and work. Yay!

Anyway, I was at work the other day, and, as you know, I clean the bathrooms. But I also was the glass doors on the building. There are three sets of these doors that lead to the outside. As I was doing my job, like a good little employee, I sprayed the glass cleaner onto one of the doors with one hand and started wiping with the other. Now, these are normal sized doors, so they are pretty big. However, the cleaner could not have been on the door for more than two or three seconds.

I had to explain that. Now, the rest of my little story. As I was wiping, I saw something more than a little nasty on the window. It was this gunky stuff that I hadn't seen before. I'm standing there thinking, "that's weird, is there something on my towel that's getting this crap all over the glass?" So I examine my towel. Nothing. I turn back to the door and start essentially scrubbing until it starts to come off. At this point, I'm annoyed.

I take of my too big gloves and start using my nails to scratch the crap off. It comes...and I examine it. IT'S ICE!!!!
In the two seconds I had let the cleaner stay on the window, it had frozen!

I tell this to my boss, and he says, "what did I tell you to do when it froze?" (he's very sarcastic)

I said, "to tell you, and then stop washing the windows. So that's what I'm doing. Telling you"

I also asked him what the temperature was. He said, "three degrees, but the windchill factor makes if feel like -8, at least according to my 'yahoo weather'."

No kidding. No wonder it froze! But hey, now I have one less job to do in the mornings. Bathrooms, drinking fountains, but NO windows. It was a happy day.

I had to tell that one, might just tell it on air during my next radio shift at school next week, too.

Comments
on Jan 19, 2008
Now that's cold! Three degrees?! Wow, girl when you got home you must have stayed under the covers!
on Jan 19, 2008
Nope!

Got showered, dressed, and went to breakfast before I had class. No sleeping here!

But I have my thermostat set for about seventy so it will stay tolerable. See, my heater doesn't work so great. I have to set it higher than I normally would to get a comfortable temperature. Makes a good story, though.
on Jan 19, 2008
"three degrees, but the windchill factor makes if feel like -8,

If it's that cold you have to factor in the windex chill factor.
on Jan 20, 2008

If it's that cold you have to factor in the windex chill factor.


Apparently.
on Jan 20, 2008
I cried just hearing that, and then died from the shivers...
on Jan 20, 2008
Here in North Dakota, you know it is cold out when.....

The flat spot on your tire freezes overnight, and then the next morning you go thumping down the road, at least for the first few 100 feet. Happens every few years.
on Jan 20, 2008
Yikes!!! And here I am thinking I have it bad! Poor you.

Ugh. I hate cold weather...I should live in the Bahamas.