So Very Cold

Don't know if this has happened to anyone else, or if I'm just incredibly but I have a pretty, semi-permanent vertical stripe on my lower lip tonight.  Please stay with me while I set the scene of my corporeal mortification.

It's 8:30 in the morning and I'm bundled up in a shirt, a sweater, and a coat as I'm walking briskly towards school, lamenting that at my age I'm still subjected to the indignities of walking to school.  My foggy breath is blown away from me almost as soon as it leaves my mouth because a nice little breeze is making me wish I had a snow jacket instead of normal one.  Lastly, I'm trying not to slip on the ice because the ground is frozen over and all the puddles (and this being London, there are more puddles than dry ground) are glistening like uneven glass

All that, to say that it was really cold.  You got that right?  I'm walking to school and it's below freezing outside? Ok, good.  Just checking.

Anyway, so I am tired of my neck trying to handle the cold from without and  within as I breathe in the icy air.  So, I take the zipper which was nestled at the base of my throat over the shirt and sweater, and pull it all the way up so that the collar becomes a nice little tube that comes up to just above my chin.  About to the level of my lower lip actually.

Kinda like this

I breathe out and immediately my glasses fog up because all the humid air hits the collar and shoots up.  And at that moment when I am blind and a little numb from the cold, I feel my lip stick to the freezing cold zipper that I had just pulled up.  The condensation from my breath had frozen my lip to the zipper in an instant.
Remember the movie Dumb and Dumber with Jim Carrey where the other guy gets his tongue frozen to the icy pole on his ski vacation? Yeah, that was me, only thankfully, a little more private and a little easier to fix.  I very nearly panicked and yanked the zipper, which would have resulted in a fat lip and a bloody chin, I'm sure.  Luckily, my fingers were too numb to react quickly and I was able to think of a better solution before I did something stupid.

I just breathed again, and again and again, letting the heat from my breath melt the ice on the zipper until it and my lip were separated as painlessly as possible.

I MISS YOU CALIFORNIA!!!