I know yesterday was Tuesday, but it felt oh so very Monday-ish. It felt specifically Monday-ish because it was raining and I couldn’t find an umbrella. I have this special skill where I carry my umbrella into work, because it’s raining in the morning. But then, and this is the important part, I leave the umbrella on my desk when I go home because it is no longer raining. There are probably four umbrellas stashed around my office at work, none of which do me any good on a rainy morning.

As I backed out of my driveway, I twisted the windshield wiper thingy on the steering wheel. The blades came up slowly and went back down. I turned the knob in what I hoped was the right direction and the wipers whipped back and forth, but I was still unable to see as I drove down the road, so I slowed down, pulled over, and twisted the knob again. The passenger side wiper glided across the glass, doing it’s job perfectly. The driver side wiper was oddly absent. It’s it’s place was a short black metal bar.

I climbed out of the car and stared at that short black metal bar which was missing it’s wiper blade. My husband pulled his car up behind me, and got out to see what was wrong. I pointed at the space where the wiper should be. Neither of us had an answer for the problem. My husband would have offered to trade me cars, but he drives a stick shift, which I can’t drive. That is a whole other story. Anyway…since neither of  us could make a wiper magically appear, I drove to the nearest Dobb’s auto body shop and thankfully they sold wipers and even agreed to put them on for me so I could get to work as soon as possible.

When I texted my boss to tell her I’d be late, she said a car wash had ripped off her windshield wiper over the weekend. My husband drove our cars through a car wash Monday night but didn’t notice anything strange. So either the car wash is systematically and stealthily yanking wipers off of cars, or someone is collecting driver side wiper blades.

What’s the weirdest car issue you’ve ever had?