So, now you have several nasty and inconvenient issue to deal with here do not you?
The first one is the lack of vision which has to be overcome.
Next you have to actually deal with the problem, which means spending money, getting wet and cold and probably shredding your fingertips a touch. Sometimes it means a paint scratch or even a broken wind-screen. Perish the thought.
So, unless you 'went blind' outside your favorite car-parts store or garage you are in for a hunt. Hunting for a place that sells wiper-blades at 11pm on a Sunday night and quite miraculously just happens to have your type. Yeah, and pigs can fly too.
And if you do find somewhere they will happily overcharge you for a little piece of crummy rubber just because you're stuck. Not 5 bucks like they used to but now, being super duper 'designer' psychotropic hippy-blades or something developed by NASA, they are now sort of talking $ 55 bucks a set and climbing. It will be blade auctions soon for sure.
So, while your day only appeared to have been breaking down a little, now it is actually going to.
You have the fun bits of this exercise to enjoy next.
You have to stand out in the cold and wet, leaving at a precise angle absolutely guaranteed to destroy the nerves in your spine and left leg. Also, your partner, sitting inside in the warmth will suddenly become two things that will not impress you … first they become a brilliant engineer and second, they become a wonderful mime and press them face up to the screen to show you these brilliant new talents. They might even turn the wipers on soon, just to make you laugh.
While holding this odd posture the clouds will open their hearts in real sympathy as you try to figure out the impossible …. how do these things come off anyway? (and in a way where they might even go back on again) (Yes, I do know that teasing them off and launching them into the traffic will feel good but trust me … it can make it difficult to find and refit them later ).
It will be while you are in pain, wet, cold, miserable and being tortured by your spinal column and your partner's face glowing from the heated interior that you will reach out for a screwdriver and plunge it with built up loathing into … the top of the wiper shoe, in a desperate hope it will occasionally come off and let you finish the job and just be on your way. This is generally when either the paint gets scratched or you drop the metal wiper arm, which will soon spring forward and crack your windscreen or knuckles.
While your fingers may be in tatters by now, I have to tell you something I really should have said earlier …. All this pain was really totally unnecessary you know.
Wiper blades can be repaired many times over, in 30 seconds without hassle, if you have the right tool.
It takes less than a minute to eradicate the cracks, chips and worn edges of your wiper-blades and to recover your lost vision ….. IF you keep the right tool in your car.
