January 12, 2010

Saved by the Antifreeze

Me and my world famous arms were driving to the gym the other day in below freezing whether when I discovered that the windshield wiper fluid was empty.

For those of you who have never driven with frozen water vapor on your windshield, that's bad. I made a mental note to discuss this seriously with Ralf if I survived.

My window was rapidly icing over with traffic coming from the other direction and there was nothing I could do about it. My wipers scraped pathetically over my windshield with a loud crunching noise. I was flying blind.

For several seconds that felt like hours I debated pulling over but my cellphone was dead and I didn't fancy being stuck on the side of the road until spring.

And then it happened. A truck driver zooming past in the opposite lane cleaned his own windshield and the excess spray somehow found its way to my windshield in passing. The ice melted and my wipers authoritatively nudged the slush aside. I could see again!

Who says miracles never happen?

20 comments:

  1. LOL! Thank goodness you and your wafer thin arms were saved by a thoughtless truck driver!

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  2. That has happened to me before but instead of being grateful, I was horribly annoyed. Glad the karma was going your way when you needed it!

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  3. I'd still have that talk with Ralf. :)

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  4. I'm so glad your arms made it safely! Your legs may have been a bit wobbly, though.

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  5. Wait. I'm confused. That link isn't to a post about your gorgeous arms. Maybe I'm missing the joke.

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  6. What the...? LOL. There are so many funny analogies one can make of this. But I need coffee before I can be all witty. I know there are!

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  7. Yeah for random window spray! When my car was brand new and the spray would shoot really far I used to use it just to see if I could get the car behind me to have to use theirs too - was just to amuse myself. sigh.

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  8. I have been there and it's scary! Thank goodness for giant trucks!

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  9. Thank heavens for those big truck drivers and the sludge that they spray/splash onto our cars... What would we do without them? lol

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  10. Whew! Glad you survived to talk it over with him.

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  11. See? Even the drivers care about the state of you beautiful arms.

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  12. You had me at wafer thin arms.

    Whew, what a relief! I'm glad you live another day!

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  13. The Guardian Angel of those with "wafer thin arms" must have been looking down on you!

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  14. That is sooooooo Seinfeld. Of course you experience good fortune similar to Jerry while some of us less fortunate live our lives more like George Costanza. Glad your ok.

    Costanza

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  15. Funny you should mention that, Magda. I am a lot like Jerry Seinfeld. Everyone says so.

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  16. Driving in that kind of weather can be so scary! Glad to hear the big rig worked for the good this time!

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  17. ok, that's just crazy. divine windshield wiper fluid. perfecto!

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  18. That's funny. Amazing, in fact! Makes up for all those truck drivers you pass in the rain who spray black sludge across the windshield.

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