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There is a black cat mewing disconsolately at the door to a house. The animal has been locked out, and is trying to gain attention now. The poor animal has been probably locked out all night. A cyclist rolls along the pavement, delivering newspapers. The bicycle The car has ice on the windscreen, a light coating, more than can be removed by the use of the windscreen wipers. So take the ice scratcher from glove pocket inside the door, and scratch the ice away. It is only a very light coating of ice, there is no problem.
Get into the car, the seats are of red leather. That is one of the strange surprises of buying cars second hand, they have features installed which would never have been ordered,
For reasons of taste.

Start the engine, reverse, then forward and drive forward to the square at the rear of the police station.
Turn the car about, and drive up the narrow cobbled street beside the market square. Take a left, a right, avoid ice-blinded early morning traffic coming the other way, and

The tunnel is closed. Closed for maintenance.
This means having to drive the long way around, and
this means that the arrival at work sixty kilometres away will be delayed by five minutes.

That is annoying, being stuck in traffic, when the alternative would have been drinking an early cup of coffee on the train.