{"id":3185,"date":"2013-03-01T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:36:48","slug":"in-celebration-of-wiper-blades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=3185","title":{"rendered":"In celebration of wiper blades…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to go to the garage, yesterday, to get a new wiper blade for my ’98 Honda Civic.  I had had a small victory about a month ago, re-attaching a blade that had come off in the snow. However, when it happened again, I decided to cave in and get a new blade.<\/p>\n

Every once in a while, especially when “things” get difficult, I try to remind myself to celebrate the positives and look on the brighter side. Here is what happened yesterday:<\/p>\n

1. I drove to Canadian Tire to get a new wiper blade – celebrate a) it wasn’t raining or snowing so I could drive without a functioning blade on the driver’s side and it’s always the driver’s side, isn’t it? Celebrate b) getting out of on-street parking with foot-high snow banks.<\/p>\n

2. When I arrived at the store, I found that the most convenient entrance to the store’s parking lot was blocked by cranes – “renovating to serve you better,” – well, maybe not today. Celebrate being able to make a U-Turn in traffic and head back to a less convenient entrance. Finally, after all of this manoeuvring, celebrate that the store was in fact, open!!<\/p>\n

3. Because of the building chaos, there were very few people in the store so I was able to snag a sales clerk, right away, to get me the correct replacement blade. I paid an extra $5.00 to have another employee put the blade on. Just as well I did, because this blade and several others didn’t fit. At one point there were 3 technicians trying to attach  one blade!! Celebrate that I had decided to have the store do all the work or I would have been struggling out in the cold trying to affix a blade that wasn’t going to work anyway. And then I would have had to convince the staff that I had bought the correct blade and that I knew how to put it on.<\/p>\n

4. I should also celebrate the time I was left waiting in the car while “they” tried to figure out the problem! I was glad that my car was positioned right in the middle of the shop or I might have been left in a corner all day, completely ignored – I can read the headlines now – “forgotten driver found dead of boredom in maintenance garage” or something like that!!<\/p>\n

5. I was able to alleviate some of the tedium by taking pictures and speculating on why most cars there, and everywhere else for that matter, were grey or black – maybe another post!! <\/p>\n

6. Finally the mechanics tried another type of blade; it worked. I did however have to go through the exchange process, which took longer than the blade replacement process, before I could actually go. Celebrate “freedom!”<\/p>\n

As I was leaving the garage, I did noticed that the car next in line was a Rolls Royce. I have been trying for a few years now to get a picture of the Spirit of Ecstasy, which I failed to do once because I had forgotten to put the card back in my camera. Well I didn’t get one, this time either, sigh! Celebrate that I was in good company – someone with lots money also uses Canadian Tire for repairs. And celebrate, that I will get my picture opportunity at another, even better, time!!<\/p>\n

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\nHere is the storied blade – waving a victory sign in celebration!! OK it’s not the oscars – but we find our drama, where we can!!<\/p>\n

Have an awesome day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to go to the garage, yesterday, to get a new wiper blade for my ’98 Honda Civic.  I had had a small victory about a month ago, re-attaching a blade that had come off in the snow. However, when it happened again, I decided to cave in and get a new blade. Every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}