I hate waking up at 4 in the morning and realising I forgot to plug in the car

[wolfpup]

@Cyros

The styrofoam squeak when you step on the snow at -30°C and the feeling of your nose hairs freezing in the cold makes it all worth while though!

I remember the coldest I’ve ever felt was flying into Saskatoon on a cold December night. We had just spent a year in Australia and stopped for a week in Maui on the way back. My winter jacket was a pathetic little thing (more of a spring coat to be honest) and it was -35°C or so. The memory of the walk from the terminal to the car is frostbitten into my brain.

I remember flying in to Saskatoon once for a one-day business meeting with a jacket like that, and the temperature was something like that. The walk from the hotel to the meeting site was about two blocks, and I felt like I was going to freeze to death.

When I walked in to the office I was just about turning blue and shivering in this pathetic spring overcoat. Without another word the receptionist picked up the phone and announced, “The gentleman from Toronto is here”. (At least she didn’t say "There’s a frostbitten idiot wearing a spring coat in 35-below weather that just walked in – it must be your guy from out East.)