Thursday, April 2, 2009

windshield wipers and blinkers

so today as I was driving home through the rain, I realized something- that I have two very strong pet peeves related to windshield wipers and blinkers and the speed of them both. Let me explain. First, windshield wipers. They need to be at the right speed. When it is barely raining, there is no need to have your wipers on full blast. It is just not necessary. When you are sitting at a red light and are under an overpass, you can turn your wipers down, your windshield is not getting wet. You can turn them back on when you start driving again in the rain, but while you are under the overpass, turn them down. On the other hand, if it is raining and you do not turn on your wipers, that is just dumb. So turn them on, just make sure they are right speed. Now onto blinkers. Some people's blinkers are just entirely way too fast. I am not sure if there is a short in the circuit or something, but it is so fast that I like to call it an "overactive blinker." I am not sure what can be done about this because blinkers are not really adjustable like wipers are. But I have to admit, if there is an overactive blinker somewhere in my field of vision, I have to turn my head so I can no longer see it. That's how bad my aversion to overactive blinkers is.
So just a little heads up to the drivers out there- make sure your wiper speed is under control and your blinkers are not overactive!

1 comment:

Jessica said...

the blinker speeds up like that when it's about to burn out! :) but it bugs me too!