Car Chunks

If you have to ask what a car chunk is, then you don't live in Minneapolis. 

 

A car chunk is what you get under the wheels of your car when the snow gets kicked up when driving.  It becomes a solid mass of ice and snow.  If you don't get rid of it, it will rub against the tire and you will wear the treed down.  Plus ,the sound is miserable. 

 

We get rid of them by kicking them with our shoes.  In doing so we can break our toes.  I am not kidding.  My husband always says to use my heal, but I don't listen to him.  My shoes have the famous "salt" look of Minneapolis shoes.  The salt that is dropped on the street so we don't skid is absorbed by the snow and then is absorbed by the leather on our shoes.  It is a nasty look and you try to get rid of it as soon as you can.  I don't advise spitting on the shoe, but some people do.

 

You can go through a car wash, but that is the easy way to get rid of them.  You do want them off or they will drop off in your garage during the night as the warmth of the garage allows the chunk to drop off.  You go through the parking ramps and parking lots of Minneapolis and see large chunks on the ground.  They are not very attractive.  I think I should start chunk throwing contests just to find a useful use for these things.  So------now you know that those of us who live in Minneapolis have car chunks.  Come July they will be a passing memory.