Hey everyone look at me!

I just have a little silly/embarrassing experience I thought I'd share.

Myer had his 15 month check up on Monday. It was a very rainy day. It was great getting all the rain, we need it, but I hate when I have to go out and it is pouring like that.

Maybe to set this story up I must back track a few weeks. I was out driving to go visiting teaching and it was a rainy day that day as well. Well, my windshield wiper all of a sudden comes off and is scraping across my window. I was able to get it back on and thought the clip was maybe broken but it seemed to be fine and I actually kinda forgot about it. Well, I'm driving to this appt. on Monday when all of a sudden the wiper comes off again and is scraping across my window. "Oh great," I think "not again!" Luckily I was almost there so I just had to turn it off and just wipe the window a couple more times to clear it until I got there. When I turned it on to scrape though, it made this terrible screeching noise. I have a permanent scrape across my window now from it. Anyways, I go in to my appt and when I come out, it is POURING really bad now. I was thinking I'd just have to wait it out and be stuck here because my wiper isn't working which I really didn't want to do.

I decided to get out of the car to see if I could fix it, but the little clasp thing had flown away this time. I think I saw it fly off while I was driving. So, I tried to reattach the wiper and went and tried it and it seemed to be staying so I decided to try leaving. It was wiping back and forth pretty good but all of a sudden it came off again. Eek! Luckily I was by some neighborhoods so I pulled off onto the street and into someone's driveway to fix it since the roads were flooding with water. I fixed it again and tried going again and didn't get very far before it happened again. So, I turned at the light and stopped down at this little convenient store. Sitting there I finally decided to go in and see if they sold windshield wipers. The couple was some different nationality and I don't think the lady spoke much English. I asked if they sold windshield wipers and the guy was like "oh yes, back in that corner." So, I walk back there and I'm not seeing them. So, I said, "umm I'm not seeing them." He asked me again what I was looking for and I told him and he's all "oh, I thought you said the restroom, they are over here." So, I walk down a few more aisles as he's guiding me from the counter where to go. I get on that aisle and am still not seeing them. So, he asks again what I was looking for and I tell him and he's like "oh, I thought you wanted window cleaner, no sorry we don't sell those." Bahhhh!!

I decided if I wanted to get home anytime soon I was going to have to pull the wiper off, and stick the thing in the air so I could use the other wiper, which luckily was on my side so I could still see. So, there I went driving down the street and freeway to get home feeling like a total dork, with my one windshield wiper waving in the air with no blade on it! I'm sure it was a funny site to anyone that may have seen and wondered what the heck I was doing but hey I wanted to get home and this was my best solution. I didn't want to stop and drag Myer out in the rain to more places to see if they had wipers and besides that I probably wouldn't have known what one to get or how to put it on. So, I just drove home embarrassed as can be at every stop light I had to stop at and had Wayne go fix it when I got home! What a dork I am.