Monday morning schedule is all messed up.
Item 1, my daughter's car is in the shop so I have to drive her to work. She dropped it off at the dealership last night and has arrangements for the dealer shuttle to pick her up at work.
Item 2, due to the storm, school is closed today, so my wife has to watch my grandaughter all day. Usually my daughter drops her off at our house on the way to work, she has breakfast with us and my wife takes her to school about an hour later. Wife decides I will drop her off at my daughter's house, take my daughter to work and then pick up the remaining girls on my way back.
Item 3, it was cold last night and the car was frosted over. My wife gets out of the house first, starts car and begins scrapping ice from the driver's door toward the rear. I grab a second scraper as go out the door and start on the windshield. It is a thin coating of ice and is actually harder to get off than thicker ice. It is only a hit and miss job and I decide to go with the wipers and plenty of cleaning fluid. Whoa, Nellie! the passenger wiper is flapping in the wind and the fluid is still summer mix. Somewhere in the scraping I caught the wiper and one of the small plastic spreaders became disengaged. I look around for it, not in the driveway and not visible anywhere in the front yard. It is black and the yard is white. It did not sink into the snow because said snow is frozen. Back to recleaning the windshield and what you see is what you get.
Off we go a tad late, I trade my wife for my daughter and head West. In Bethlehem traffic is cautious and slow, streetlight after streetlight is not working, some have police offices, some do not. I opt to come home via the thruway and on the way a light comes on in my head, my home exit is near my regular autoparts store and I am sure my wife does not relish driving without a wiper. I park in front of the store and remove the whole assembly. As I walk to the store front there is a trash can and laying next to the trash can on the sidewalk is a whole used blade assembly. Whoa Paulie! I pick it up and it is the exact same ANCO style and same length as the one in my other hand. I pop off the spreader, add it to mine and I am back in the wiper business at no expense. I do go back and go in the store and buy a gallon of Rainex to lower my fluid freezing temperature.
Wife is amazed that I fixed something so quickly, all subsequent comments and expletives are deleted.
Paul in PA
It looks to me like you are just going "green". It's better for everybody when you can re-use an existing part without going through the manufacturing process, wasting time and precious natural resources to create what already exists.
Just another day in paradise.
I feel so sorry for single people who have no such responsibilities thrust upon them at a moment's notice,
Of course you're a cheapskate.
I have met very few land surveyors and civil engineers who aren't inveterate cheapskates.
It is going to be 80 in FL today (34 here in GA this morning)
There is a Jimmy Buffett song in your story somewhere.
NO, resourceful.
🙂
Right place, right time.
You have to be lucky to be good.....;-)
No, not a cheapskate....
I just don't wanna ever go out to eat with you..;-)
Your Loss Paden
Nobody goes hungry around me.
If I eat, you eat.
If you are squeemish, I just won't tell you if it is roadkill.
Paul in PA
BTW, I Found The Part This Afternoon
My son-in-law stopped to pick up our little charge and I was explaining the whole deal to him. Then I spotted the part hidden in the hood cowl on the drivers side, black on black. Nothing broken. No damage to it so I now have a spare, that is until my wife finds it.
Paul in PA
BTW, I Found The Part This Afternoon
> My son-in-law stopped to pick up our little charge and I was explaining the whole deal to him. Then I spotted the part hidden in the hood cowl on the drivers side, black on black. Nothing broken. No damage to it so I now have a spare, that is until my wife finds it.
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> Paul in PA
Then you will no longer have a spare because after she finds it it will shortly be in one of the household trash cans and irretrievable.
Different wife, same problem.:-(
