You know what sucks about winter? Snow. Well, snow and ice. Oh, and the lovely combination of the two: sleet. Snow, ice, and sleet basically threaten to ruin anything that could possibly be enjoyable about the wintertime. I know, it gets colder and this winter weather is supposed to happen, but I just never get used to it. Every year there’s that huge weather monstrosity occurs and everyone sane has the day off, but not you. Nope, you have to go into work, it doesn’t matter how many inches of snow are shrouding your car like an invisible snow cloak. So you get out there and you put a good hour into clearing off the excess snow. But then you get down to the windshield and it just encased in a solid sheet of ice. There’s no budging this thing. I mean, you just about break your wrist trying to scrape off the ice, and it barely makes a dent. So how are you supposed to get to work on time?
Well, with the Electric Windshield Scraper (Graveyardmall.com, $3.99) there is very little effort involved on your part. I mean, you still have to get bundled up, go out in the cold, and clear the three feet of snow off your car. But, this scraper does have a significant impact of your ice removal productivity. See, while the ice scraper has the traditional ice breaking teeth technology, the secret here is that it also heats up. That’s right, I said it heats up, so basically it melts the ice as it scrapes it off. Come on, like that was so hard for someone to invent? We used to have to stand there scraping off our windshields for at least a half hour before this handy little tool came along. All you have to do is plug the ice scraper into your cigarette lighter and in about two minutes, you’re in business. And for you pessimistic folks out there, the ice scraper has a 14′ cord so it’s got more than enough slack to allow you to maneuver around your car as you clear it off.
Now you might want to keep this purchase a little hush hush because if your boss finds out you have one, you’ve pretty much blown your bad weather excuse. I mean, who’s gonna let you skip out of going to work due to inclement weather when you’ve got a heated ice scraper? You’re gonna have to brush up on your list of excuses. You know, like “I have to get my laundry out of the dryer” or something like that.
5 out of 5 thawing stars.
Specs:
-14′ cord
-Plugs into car cigarette lighter
-Heats up in about 2 minutes
-No slip grip
-Ice breaking teeth and thick rubber tipped squeegee
-LED “on” light
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