Guy brains

In the debate about the intelligence of women vs. men, I come down on the side of the girls. You never see them missing fingers. The subject occurs to me as I contemplate going outside to clear the coating of ice and snow off my truck. My thoughts reel back to college days and Speedy. The nickname came from the cadence of his speech. He had a thick southern accent. You could leave the room to get a cup of coffee between his words and you wouldn’t have missed anything upon returning. Over a dozen of us lived in the house and no one was granted use of the garage. It was filled with all kinds of extra furniture and junk, anyway. One day, after an icy snow storm, Speedy had somewhere he had to be. His Ford (of mid-50s vintage) was solidly encased in water frozen in various configurations. He was pondering a fast way to clear it off, or at least the windows. What he came up with was a liberal dousing of the windshield area with charcoal lighter fluid. It was a pretty impressive sight when he lit it up. However, the results revealed this to be a less than ingenious solution. Manufacturers have used safety glass for windshields since the 1920s. That is, a layer of plastic is sandwiched between layers of glass to arrest flying shards in case of a shattering impact. Encased plastic reacts to extreme heat. It turns black. Black isn’t the optimum color for windshields. Male intelligence? Case closed.