I hope all my loyal followers have had a decent winter this year.  In North Carolina, the weather can be very unpredictable in late winter. One day it will be freezing with rain or sleet and the next day be 80 degrees and sunny!  I like it here because of the seasons and the fact I grew up here makes me love it more.  I have had several situations recently in which the unpredictable weather has caused some unexpected situations and I had to think fast in a pinch. 
Early last week it snowed for the 3rd time this winter and my son was thrilled to be out of school for a day.  The following day, the school opened two hours late but the temperatures were still well below freezing.  The snow had thawed some but then refroze overnight causing some patches here and there of ice.  I had to get my son to school by 10 am so promptly at 9:30 we started to pack up and get ready to go.  Normally on cold mornings I will go start the car to get it warmed up before we leave so we don't have to freeze for 5 minutes during the trip while the car warms but that morning the change in schedule totally threw me off.
When we left my son tried to open the car door but it was frozen stuck so I walked around an gave it a good jerk which cracked the ice that was holding it shut to break and it opened.  When my son got in and tried to shut the door, the door would not latch shut.  It kept bouncing back opened.  I tried fiddling with the latch but it was stuck very well up into the door.  In a rush to leave, I told my son to go to the other side of the back seat and I would figure out a way to shut the other door so it wouldn't fly open on us on the way to school.  My son had the same problem with a frozen door on the other side and the latch did the same thing also!  So now I have two back doors that will not close hanging half opened and no other car to drive at the time.  When you are in a rush to leave, one often doesn't always think logically such as - hey, maybe I should turn on the car and let it heat up?  No - it has to be much more complicated than that.  My man brain went into high gear and the first thing I though of was...what else....DUCK TAPE!  I went to the garage only to remember that my duck tape was at the Nursery.  My man brain went to the next best thing....BUNGEE CORDS!  I had my son sit in the front seat with me where the door closed fine and proceeded to bungee cord the back doors to the front hand grips above the passenger windows.  It worked!   The doors held shut all the way to school!
I'm one of those people who will buy a vehicle and run it into the ground before I buy another.  The car we were in is a '95 Toyota Corolla with over 200K miles.  It didn't occur to me until halfway to school that the front passenger side door inside handle was broken and whoever rides there has to roll down the window to open the door from the outside to get out.   The window is manual crank kind so my son was getting more and more embarrassed at the fact that his friends may see him do this and have to crawl out from under a bungee cord on top of it.  I told him I would get out and open the door for him so at least he didn't have to do that himself.  Wouldn't you know that one of the Gym teachers (very large man) was standing in the car line helping kids out when I drove up.  I walked around and opened the door trying not to look at the guy and draw attention to us but he walked up and said "having some door trouble?"  I just said "Yeah!" and quickly got back in the car and drove away.
When I got home I pulled off the bungee cords and the doors shut properly.  That is when it finally occurred to me that I should have just let the car warm up in the first place.  At least I could say that I was doing some quick thinking (maybe not logical) in a pinch!