So, the driver's side windshield wiper on our Explorer has been acting up a little lately (like for a year, I think). It wasn't attached very securely to the wiper arm. I've been meaning to get it replaced, really, I have. Well, tonight we had to take it to a Ford dealer to have a safety recall issue fixed. I won't deal with the Ford garage across the street from me - I don't trust them to deal fairly with me. Ive already had a bad experience with them. So, anyway to get off the rabbit trail and back on to the main track again: Coming home from Ithaca over Route 79, it started to rain rather steadily, so I turned the wipers on to a medium intermittent speed. Not too bad - for a while. I began to notice that it was getting tough to see the right-hand lane marker because the inner section of the wiper was no longer making contact with the windsheild. So, I pulled over in Mecklenburg and re-situated the wiper blade. This worked wonders on clearing the windshield for a time, then it started all over again. As I was gettin quite close to home, I didn't bother to stop again to re-orient it - not such a good choice as it turns out: Coming down Burdett hill, the wiper blade suddenly went "Clunk!" and turned upside down and perpendicular (rather than parallel) to the wiper arm! Now I had the driver's side wiper not touching ANY of the windshield, no street lights, rain coming down in periodic buckets, and lots of incoming traffic. To say it was difficult to see the road is a tremendous understatement. I had to slow down to less than 30 mph, much to the irritation of the drivers behind me (with the exception of my wife, who was just worried about me). So I stopped at the local Walmart and bought a new wiper blade. Isn't it amazing how much better a functioning wiper blade works than a non-functioning (or at least sporadically functioning) one does. And all of this drama would have been avoided had I just replaced the blade when it first gave me problems.
Old Ben Franklin knew what he was talking about didn't he?
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