Windscreen Wipers

As many have observed before, when it comes to technical/practical stuff, I’m a complete numpty.

This weekend’s case in point came with the car, and replacing the windscreen wipers on it. Or not.

I’ve known for a while that the wipers needed changing – they weren’t clearing the screen properly, and the one on the rear screen was flapping at the end. I bought the wipers last weekend, and didn’t get round to putting them on. In some ways that turned out to be a good thing.

Anyway, once I’d got down to Oxfordshire yesterday I decided to change the wipers before going down to London, and made (to be blunt) a right bollocks of it. Still don’t know how, but I just couldn’t get the new blades to go on correctly, despite having made note of how they went on.

In fact, in the end I went to the local Ford garage, and asked them to do it. They took about 30 seconds to fit them, and probably sniggered behind their hands at my incompetence. But I don’t care – I’ve never had an issue with the fact I’m a numpty, nor with admitting that to people who do know what they’re doing in their own area of knowledge/expertise.

So yes, I’m still a complete technical/practical twonk, but at least I’ve now got fresh windscreen wipers, regardless of how they got put on. Oh, and I’ve still no idea how they actually did it!