The sight of any vehicle caked in road salt is pain-inducing, especially when it belongs to me or someone in my family.
I can almost feel the steel-eating grime chewing away at the frame and fenders. I want to scream: “GET IT OFF!”
That can be a big challenge when the temperature is 5 below zero and the local car wash is closed.
So my bright spot this week came with a Sunday afternoon high near 40 degrees, when I took a pocketful of quarters and my daughter’s pickup truck to the car wash.
The salt block on wheels looks like a truck again, and that makes me smile.
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