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

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-waking-up-at-4-in-the-morning-and-realising-i-forgot-to-plug-in-the-car/777023/20 "2017-01-13T21:48:37Z")

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> [@Cyros](#):
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> 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!
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> 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.)

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