In addition to laziness, there are also lots of people who do not believe in planning ahead, so maybe that brainless broad had somehow ignored the reality that winter brings ice, snow, and frozen windshields.
Case in point: Years ago, I had a supervisor who never seemed to have an ice scraper in his car when winter arrived. Each time we would come out of work on an icy evening, he would have to beg and borrow an ice scraper from someone else, thus delaying both himself and the person lending the ice scraper. I imagine that if he was ever the last to leave the office, he probably would have pulled a bone-headed manuever like the woman in the OP’s post.
I always felt like asking him…“So, Jerry, were you taken by surprise this year when temperatures dropped after autumn was over?”…but being a wise guy with someone who writes your evaluation is not a good idea.
Anyway, his inexplicable behavior persisted for as long as I knew him. I know that he was a cheapskate, but you would think that after many winters of inconvenience, he would have limbered up his wallet sufficiently to shell out the $1.25 necessary to buy an ice scraper of his very own.
The best part of the story about this guy had to do with his purchase of a new Buick, sometime in the late '70s. He special-ordered it without a rear window defogger/defroster! When I asked him why he deleted that feature, his answer was something along the lines of…you don’t really need that feature in this part of the country!
On second thought, maybe he really was too cheap to shell out $1.25 for his own ice scraper.