View From The Shoulder

I learned one of Jenny's pet peeves I had not yet known today. If Jenny is driving, she doesn't want the passenger of the car to take control of things like the windshield wipers.

I did not learn this because I peeved her. Instead, while driving home from my parents' tonight, Jenny decided she could not see well enough out her half of the windshield and thought that maybe I (the driver) might be having the same problem (I was not). She then reached over and clicked the windshield wipers on, which as they do in this kind of cold, spread the liquid drops evenly over all of the windshield. Now I couldn't see.

Using the windshield wiper fluid is always the first attempt, but as we had only been in the car about a minute, the windshield was still cold enough to freeze that fluid on contact. It was time to pull off unto the shoulder and wait for the defrost to kick into high gear.

We laughed a lot of the way home. She also then informed me that she didn't exactly know why she did it, as it is one of her pet peeves.