I Need A New Car

I need a new car.

Not to offend my other car which really is cool. I mean, you can't get any cooler than a ten-year-old Geo Prism with 157,000 miles on it. That car has been through a lot - especially since moving to Texas, where apparently, no one knows how to check their blind spot before making a lane change (I propose that this skill be added to the driver's education classes. I also propose that people learn to drive while NOT talking on their cell phones).

Anyway, the reason that I have to get a new car is because it actually rains in Texas and my windshield wipers aren't fast enough to get the falling water OFF of the windshield. I used to wonder why they put what I considered "super-fast-hyper-wiping-speed" on any car. That was until I went to Japan and drove in real rain for the first time. Luckily, I had a car with six, that's right, SIX wiper speeds.

Then I moved to Texas with my Nevada car, which only has TWO speeds, neither of which are fast enough. It's like driving blind. And, it doesn't help that other Texas drivers, who think they are used to driving in the rain (at least until they slam into the car in front of them. I've seen five accidents in the last week), drive past you like a bat-out-of-hell, through the ginormous puddles (because there are always ginormous puddles all over the place, which makes me so sad because all of that lovely water is going to waste here when it is really needed in Nevada), and shower you with even more water. I am forced to shake my fist at them and curse them even if they can't hear me.

So, in closing, I figure I've got three options. Either I get a new car, I can stay home when it rains, or I can pray that it will stop raining like this in Texas. I think the prayer would go something like this, "Please help that it will not rain so hard here and please bless that I will not be forced to curse at people, and please bless that my windshield wipers will adapt and somehow acquire a "hyperspeed" setting. Amen.