It’s a happy day when you’ve just had your car washed. You can choose to wash it yourself, if you have that kind of time…I don’t.

Or you can take it to your local neighborhood scrub-a-dub-dub place.

There are various incarnations of these facilities: Harvs, Scrub Boys, Wash-N-Wait, Touchless-Express, Auto-Scrubbers, and the list can go on and on.

So you have this beautifully shiny, possibly even waxed, vehicle and you’re flying down the highway heading to work, home, or play.

And that’s when tragedy strikes. Some completely unaware person in front of you decides that going 80mph down the highway is the right time for them to bother to clean their car. And on go the wipers and washers.

Unfortunately, at those speeds, and really, anything above 25mph, the water coming from the nozzles on the hood of the car does not contain itself to the car. It begins to spray and fly all around the vehicle, and onto any cars behind it or beside it.

Now your perfectly clean car is covered in someone else’s car-filth. You either have to suffer the humiliation of having a filthy windshield that you can’t see out of now, or you have to turn on your wipers. This causes an additional issue.

If you turn your wipers on, but don’t run the washers, you are now smearing dirty water across your own windshield, creating streaks and lines which serve to further blur your vision. If you choose the washer option, you’re now doing the same thing they did, creating problems for the people behind you and around you.

Just like braking, it creates a long chain of events, with everyone down the entire highway suddenly having to run their wipers and washers all because some idiot in their Lexus SUV can’t be bothered to take their vehicle to the cleaners once in a while.

Folks - be courteous and be aware. Do not use your wipers with washers unless you are the only person on the road. Because if you do…be prepared for me to flash my brights and blare my horn at you for making my windshield a complete and utter nightmare.

This sarcastic entry was posted on Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 at 12:33 pm and is filed under Awareness, Vehicles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the comments feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.