Owning a car is definitely more annoying than it’s worth. Last night, on my way home from watching LOTR: ROTK, my windshield cracked along the bottom. The crack followed the pattern of airflow coming out of the defroster, leading me to believe that turning on my defroster full blast was a bad idea.

After talking to the folks at the glass place and looking online, car windows can actually crack from the temperature differential between the heat blowing on the inside and the outside. The glass place said they see a few of those every winter. In my case, I think something may have triggered the crack (there was a small pit along the crack and I was going by a truck when this happened… they kick up rocks all the time). What sucked even more is that it burned my entire day today to try to get it fixed. The earliest someone could come out to work or my apartment to fix it was Monday. The crack was large enough (and making enough creaking noises) that I didn’t trust the windshield if anything else were to hit it or if I got into an accident. So, I drove out to a glass place recommended by my dealer to get it fixed. Unfortunately, they had a mixup and only had a replacement windshield that was already scratched. They rushed a new one from their supplier which they thought would be there in 30 minutes to an hour. It took more like 2 hours.

The only good thing was that I found a nice pizza place in Thornton, CT. And charming places like the diner pictured here.

This diner was recommended to me by the staff at the glass place. I saw the sign attached to the main diner sign and immediately crossed the street to the pizzeria across the street. Spent an hour plus at the pizza place, then spent another couple of hours at the glass place.