Same here.
Integral garage & 7½ mile commute to work. Garage isn’t nearly as bad as outside, but it’s not toasty by any means (water pipes come up garage wall & have frozen a few times), so yes, I wear my coat to work. Especially because I don’t get in nearly early enough that I don’t have a large parking lot to walk across.
On longer drives it’s on the seat.
What’s an ‘integral garage’? Is that some weird name for an attached garage?
I live in Atlantic Canada were the temps are anywhere between 0c and -40c in the winter and I always keep my jacket on in the car. The only time I might take it off is when I stop for a pee break during the 3-4 hour drive to visit the inlaws.
More than just “attached” it is part of the primary structure. There are detached, attached, and integral garage.
I’d suggest it’s defined by there being a door from the garage that leads directly into the house. That is, you don’t exit the garage then enter the house through the front door.
My wife sometimes tries to make me carry her coat if we’re at the mall.
On an unrelated note, my friend said told me that he was always freezing during the summertime in Texas because it was similarly impossible to dress appropriately for the outdoors and the super-air-conditioned buildings.
That’s what the lockers are for.
No. I hate driving in my coat. It feels so constricting. I actually generally have the heat on as low as it will go and my window open an inch or two because the new heater works way too well. I put my coat on when I get where I’m going. But, I will keep my hat and scarf on just because I’m too lazy to go through taking it ALL off.
Oh and until the end of this month, my commute has been 45 minutes so the Jeep has plenty of time to warm up but it’s also 23 years old so I warm it up before I leave in the morning, even though that means going outside in my bathrobe and gardening boots to start it up.
I don’t have a garage at home, and my commute is only about ten minutes. My heater stops blowing cold air at about the halfway point. So, yeah, I keep my coat on.
Up until 5 years ago I almost never wore a winter coat. Oddly, after one of my operations I lost my intolerance for the cold. I have no idea why (nor if the two relate.)
But no, I only wear a coat if I’ll be out for an extended period.
I grew up in Alaska. Everybody thinks that people who live in cold climates are used to the cold. Wrong. You wear a heavy coat to protect yourself from the cold. Except you’re always somewhere where you’re wearing your coat unzipped inside for hours. And so people from Alaska are used to heat, not cold.
Yes, once it’s on, it’s on. Until I get inside a warm building where I plan to be a while, then off. ( hat and gloves, too, unless it’s a long drive. )
Even in the garage it’s normally below 0C in the winter so the coat stays on for the drive to work. Longer road trips, like the 300 km to Edmonton will normally be coat off. Gloves are usually on too unless the car has been warming up for 10-15 minutes. I know, bad for the environment yada yada, but when it’s -35 and your car has been sitting outside all day, it happens.
I wear mine on my commute - sure my car is warm, but what if I break down, slide off the road or get stuck?
The last two winters here in CT were so mild that I didn’t bother with a coat unless it was raining. 10-11 miles from the house to work, so I just wore my work clothes (jeans and a short-sleeved polo shirt). At lunch time, I’d walk out to the car to eat in peace and quiet, then walk back into the store, still with no coat. No problem.
As others have said, the key factor is the car itself is going to be cold when you start the trip. So you need your coat on to stay warm. At some point the car will be heated up but it’s usually not worth it to stop and take your coat off. So you just adjust the car’s temperature to where it’s warm enough to be comfortable in your coat.
If I’m going two metro stops to Job 1, I generally leave the coat on but unbutton it and undo my scarf. If I’m going eight stops to Job 2, I generally take the coat off, otherwise I get sweaty and I have to wear a shirt and tie for that job.
A factor to consider is that the metro is beastly hot in winter because they close the ventilation and the metro itself is entirely underground (rather than having parts aboveground and the resulting portals, as in Toronto, say).
-18F this morning and my car is not in a garage. I always start it and let it run for about 15 minutes. By that time the heat is juussssst starting to kick in.
This morning I wore a fleece vest and a lined hoodie. I took another coat with me just in case that has a pair of glooves in the pockets and I keep a hat in the car in case something happend and I have to walk.
If I was driving more than my ½ hour commute, I would lose the hoodie.
Yes, winter coat on. But I don’t generally wear my gloves and toque in the car unless it’s really freakin’ cold. 
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