How do you scrape?

So there I was, on my 15 minute afternoon break from my job in the corporate world, standing out in the "cell phone allowed" hallway, making calls to other friends, most of which also have corporate jobs and are busy - so inevitibly I'm getting their voicemails and leaving pointless messages "on break, just thought I'd see how you were doing, talk to you later" - and in the meanwhile I'm watching people down in the parking lot, six floors below me, getting their cars ready as they're already going home.

I was amused at all of the different ways that people were scraping off the extremely light layer of snow powdered on their car before attempting to drive off towards their humble abode, and I was inspired to write this blog entry! YAY for blog inspiration.

So, what kind of Minnesotan are you?

Are you the prepared Minneostan? You are the one who has pretty much lived in the cold North for most, if not all of your life, and are so well-versed in snow you have it all ready by the time you leave your office. You are wearing an amazing amount of layers, and have perfected the scarf fold to the point that only a couple of square inches of your face are exposed to the cold bitter air, and ready at any moment to sacrifice your necessary eye-sight by covering it up with your hat when a very sharp wind comes blowing by. After you start your car, you get out the gigantic 'foam-grip brushtastic scraper pro-thousand and ten plus' model that with just a few quick arm movements has completely cleared off any and all snow/ice on your car. You are ready to leave in less than a minute from when you get outside.

Are you the lazy Minnesotan. You are prepared for the cold, but even so you want to be in contact with it as little as possible. You start your car from inside with your keyless entry button pad thing, because you made sure you had that feature when you purchased your vehicle, and you let it warm up for at least a couple, if not five or ten, minutes. You run outside, and quickly get in your car. Hopefully by now the heat has melted anything and everything off your car, which isn't very likely but can sometimes happen if you hope for it enough. You then use your windshield wipers to swipe off all snow blocking your view to the front, the heat strips on the back window to melt anything there, and you use your automatic windows to slowly push of any snow on the sides - going just slow enough to make absolute sure NO SNOW gets inside. God forbid there's any ice, you let it melt on its own, or you wait an extra five minutes until its melted enough to the point where the wipers can get it for you. Hopefully no snow will blow at you from the hood of your car while you take off down the road.

Are you the artistic Minnesotan? You don't mind the snow, in fact you embrace it as you get out your scraper that looks more like a christmas card and you manually pump your hand up and down five hundred times as you brush off any and all snow from your car. You make artistic patterns as you scrape, and you also "reach behind the ears" for the car as you scrape off things that don't necessarily need it, such as the area below the side windows, and your back bumper. You've reached as far as you can on top of your car until the point of satisfaction. After all of this you then realize that in all of your artistic snowy bliss you have forgotten to start the car. Oh well, cold doesn't matter to you, you make snow angels as the car warms up.

Are you the butch Minnesotan. You wear the essentials, but you also enjoy testing yourself when you're outside in the cold. Your brush is your glove and any ice that forms on your bristly face - sorry girls, if you are like this you still probably have a bristly face - is a badge of honor that you wear with pride. You purposefully don't like starting your car until you get in it, because the closer you get to hypothermia the more alive you feel.

Are you the preppy Minnesotan. You just want to look good no matter how you brush/scrape your car. You're constantly looking around for cameras to catch you wearing the latest fashions. You imagine the caption saying " looks amazing in his/her incredibly up to date outfit EVEN while doing the incredibly challenging task of scraping off their car in the winter!" You drive away wearing your sunglasses even if it's night, and you make the zoolander face a lot.

Just something to think about.