You’re not breaking bad, I hope?
a guy who worked for me came in late one cold and frosty morning. He was muffled up like an arctic explorer.
It turned out that when he saw his windscreen all iced up, he went into the kitchen, grabbed a kettle of water and tried to use that to clear the ice. He did not know that the kettle had just boiled, so he poured nearly-boiling water onto a sub-zero screen with predictable results.
Since he was already on a warning for bad timekeeping, he chose to muffle up and drive with no screen.
Indeed. Ever heard of Prince Rupert’s Drops?
BTW, insurance companies sometimes waive the deductible and cover the whole cost of replacing cracked, damaged, or even badly scratched windshields, because it saves them more money in the long run. Check with your agent.
That pretty much SOP here in Arizona where flying rocks break or crack windshields all the time. I’ve replaced four in 25 years I’ve been here and both vehicles’ windshields currently have small chips in non-obtrusive places because I can’t be bothered.
<hijack>Destin recently did another video on Prince Rupert’s Drops wherein he attempted to catch the explosion in epoxy (while being filmed with high-speed cameras, of course).<\hijack>
Maybe so, but there’s worse trouble brewing for any caring person who tries to coax the bug out of the side window by gently wafting a facial tissue:
Only if the side window has been placed under sufficient pressure to bow inward extremely - a practice the vehicle manufacturer notifies customers as being ill advised.
Same thing happened to my buddy, but what caused it was him turning on the windshield wipers and it freaked his dog out.