As fate would have it, a police officer saw my car and pulled up behind me, making sure I was safe and didn’t need any help. After asking the routine questions—”Are you safe? Do you need help?”—he gave me a piece of advice that has been useful to me and many others ever since.
He leaned toward my car window and shared this simple wisdom:
I was completely confused. Salt? In the car? But as the officer explained the different ways salt could be used, I quickly understood that this was one of those rare, simple tricks that actually provides a big safety and convenience advantage without costing much money at all.
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