Car Problems

Now that the market is over (yahoo!), we have our Wednesdays free, so we can actually have a life. The initial plan was to return to guitar lessons on Wednesday, but KR had to cancel because of various reasons, which was fine because that meant we had the day off and could go ice skating. At least that was the plan.

Of course, as we all know, life doesn’t always go according to the plan. We had to run a few errands beforehand, which took us into the big city to return library books, and then we scored A some new snow boots and N new hockey socks and a hoodie. We were doing okay. Then the weather started to turn and it began to rain. The forecast even called for snow.

Normally this is no big deal, but on this day, it was, because our windshield wipers stopped working. This has happened in the past, there is some sort of stop mechanism that prevents the motor from burning out when there’s excessive ice. The problem is, it has engaged when there is not much in the way of ice but only cold weather. It generally starts up again, just like it’s supposed to.

This time, however, it wasn’t kicking back on. It wouldn’t have been a problem on a nice day, but it was starting to rain. I had to make a quick decision, and rather than get stuck out in the rain with no windshiled wipers, I told the kids we had to go home. This meant no ice skating, and we were so close, literally en route to the rink and we had to abort the mission. Bummer.

The kids were disappointed, no doubt, but understanding. Plus, we managed to get a lot of stuff done. By the time we got home, the wipers still weren’t working, so I called Meunier’s Towing and they said come on by and they’d take a look. It turns out it was a ground wire that broke, and he fixed it in minutes. Thanks to those guys for squeezing me in at the last minute, though I’m embarrassed that I didn’t fix it myself. I honestly didn’t think it was a malfunction but just the safety mechanism doing its thing. Just goes to show you, consider all the possibilities before you make any conclusions.

Until the next time, thanks for reading, and thanks to Ginae McDonald for the pic.