My little red convertible needs new windshield wiper blades, badly. I’m pretty sure that was the main reason why my TRIP OF DEATH was so horrible.
Sunday afternoon, my roommate and I made the trek to Target. I pulled my windshield wiper off my car (and yes, I did need to google a video to see HOW they come off) so that I would make sure to get the exact size.
Now, I am the kind of person that pulls a product out of the package in the store. I just want to know that I am getting the right size, and there was a sticker on the package so I couldn’t just measure the wiper blade with my eyes..
So what size blades does my little red convertible take? Not 22…too big… Not 17, too small. After pulling out and measuring my crusty-old-blade with all the new ones, I realized mine were size “19″. But I CAN NOT take a product that has been opened (even if I was the one that pulled it out! haha) so I put the 3 opened blades sitting on the ground of the store, back into their packages….
Pay and leave…..Then realize that I hadn’t put my blade back on my windshield. There was just a metal arm that if I accidentally ran the wipers, may scratch the glass on my windshield.. So I grab my old windshield wiper blade to put back on the car, until I get home and figure out all the pieces that came with the new blades…
But……..I didn’t have my old windshield wiper. No…… Somehow in the scurry to put all the blades back in their packages, I ACCIDENTALLY (seriously, it was an accident) put my OLD, CRUSTY, GROSS windshield wiper in one of the packages, and thought a new one was MY OLD ONE…
Oh my god, I felt so bad. I really did. I didn’t do it on purpose, I wasn’t thinking.
So I thought that I scored…Now I have an extra one (cos you’re supposed to change them once a year, especially in Seattle)…But guess what? They don’t fit…. I tried for an hour, and they are not the right kind that go with my car..
So, that was my karma.. I have an extra windshield wiper that instead of being a ‘bonus’ is actually just useless..
Maybe I’ll sell it on ebay?
