Munday on Monday: Icy windshield | Kansas City Star

When it comes to windshields, you can battle the ice, but the ice often wins. — When it comes to windshields, you can battle the ice, but the ice often wins. File photo The Associated Press

Icy windshield

Scraping, fussing,

Grinding, cussing;

Coldest chore there’s ever been!

One side clearing

(By the steering)

Now the other frosts again!

Sweeping, prying,

Tapping, trying —

Blast the heater, no avail!

Stretching, reaching,

Quite beseeching —

Yet my task is prone to fail.

Fingers frozen,

Why I’ve chosen

Early morn? My efforts: Doomed!

Nowhere nearing,

Scarcely clearing —

Still a car by ice entombed!

Don Munday, dmunday@kcstar.com