Early Mornings

What does cold weather, Starbucks and feeling like a idiot have in common?  Me!

So this week I left the gym after my morning workout and proceeded to my usual Starbucks for my morning addiction (It's not the closest to my gym but the one closest to my house and I have come to know the baristas.)  And yes, this addiction did not form until the month leading up to the decade change.  I pull into the drive thru line behind a couple of cars.  Typical morning so far.  Then my turn comes to order and I go to roll down my window, but the window won't go down.  So like a gold fish to his castle, I try the button again thinking that it just might roll down again.  To my surprise nothing happens.  At this point I start to panic and think about driving off in embarrassment.  Instead with my quick wit, I do the next best thing.  I pull up a little bit farther and open my door to place my order looking like one of those people you give dirty looks to at the ATM machine when they can't either reach the ATM machine or get the door of their clunker open to operate it and have to put the car in park and get out to use it.  


Order successful!  Plus there were no innocent bystanders that had to witness this drive-thru line faux pas.  Now I had just long enough to figure out what I was going to do before I got to the window.  It's also about this time that I realize why my window won't roll down.  The previous afternoon the weather was below freezing with a fine misty fog falling.  Just enough to get around my window and freeze.  The funny thing is that I parked in  my garage that night where it is above freezing, but I guess there was enough moisture left around the window that was able to refreeze while I was in the gym.  


So I crank the defrost up on my car hoping that it will free the window along with freeing me from an awkwardly embarrassing situation.  I will say that this is the only time that I have ever wanted the Starbucks line to move slower than its normal snail pace.  Lucky for me it was one of those morning.  So by the time I get to the window I try the button again and like magic, my window does roll down and I avoid my perceived awkward situation.


Moral of my minor life lesson.  When something does not work the way it's suppose to, be calm (don't wet yourself like I wanted to) and quickly think of a way to remedy the problem.  There is always more than one solution to every problem.  Just have confidence in your ability to resolve the issue.