I can be quite slow but maybe I am beginning to get the message.
Beware of windshield wipers
Sure, they look innocent but they can be very powerful.
My first taste of the trouble windshield wipers can cause what when my Chinese student went for her driving test. She and I had used a stick-shift car and driven around a large parking lot. She learned starting and stopping while shifting gears up or down. She drove around our town smoothly and efficiently. She was ready for her driving test. Unhappily, when the inspector got into the car with her, it was raining. He said,"
Turn on the windshield wipers." She said," What are windshield wipers?"
Ok, test over. Failed! We had practiced quite a bit but never in the rain. She didn't take the result badly. She learned what she still needed and passed the next time she tried.
Forty years, later, my wife said, "I need new windshield wipers" and went to the dealer to get some. While there, the mechanics checked her tires, found the tread was too low for safety and informed her that she needed new tires. Ever since we rented a car on a trip and she experienced warning lights blinking on her side mirrors that a car was in her blind spot to the side, she wanted a vehicle with that feature. She had found our friend the salesman and asked about used vehicles with that feature. They didn't have any but the salesman and the mechanics agreed: getting a new car with the features she wanted would remove the need to buy both windshield wipers and tires.
So, that is why I had to drive the new car to the filling station this afternoon and fill it with gas. I need to learn to drive a car with a fob but no key and strict rules about when and how it will start, shift gears, stop, put the brake on and off. If you have trouble with the wipers, en garde!
