Who else USED TO wrench outside?

Lots of stories but I'll just tell one. Had an '88 Chev Corsica. Ice storm encased it, then temps dropped below zero Saturday night. Sunday afternoon in near blizzard conditions I tried every trick in the book to open a door...any door but nothing worked. I had to get to work the next day because I had a new class of apprentices with many of them staying in hotels, etc.. The final solution was to take my cutting torch and I cut a HUGE letter "H" in the door where all the linkages were. I bent the top half up and the bottom half down, reached in and opened the door via the linkages. Everyone at work thought I was nuts. The following Monday it was all welded up, filled, primed and painted to match. The car was pretty new at the time so the story made it around the company a few times.