heavens. Have just had a little adventure. Went to Future Shop to get a cd player for el Neon, as it is seriously lacking in the audio department, having only a radio. Went, found a nice one, and somehow got swaggled into getting the 4-year warantee as well as a Future Shop card. How does that happen? It seems like such a good idea when you're in the store...hard to explain. But the FS card does let me not pay for 3 months, which is always a bonus, isn't it? I think the idea is that you pay it before the 3 months is up, but we'll see how that goes.
adventure part 2 - I noticed that my driver's side wiper was behaving rather crappily, and upon closer inspection that it was cracked. When I picked it up off the windshield, the rubber wipey part fell right off, along with half of the hard plastic part that holds said wipey thing on. So, time for a new wiper I guess. Off to Canadian Tire. Meant also to get a tire pressure guage, as mine has gone missing, very mysterious, but forgot, natch. So, I'm in the parking lot, looking like a complete twit trying to get the defective wiper off, to no avail. A very nice man in a Codiac Transit truck came out of the store, put his stuff in his truck, and tried to help, but the damn thing wouldn't come off. I did very much appreciate the help though. I didn't even have to shoot him a look of desperation, he just came over and said "usually they just pop right off!". Anyway, ended up having to take the new wiper over to the garage guys and have one of them professinally install it for me. Even he didn't really know what was going on. He said, "you didn't want to keep your old wiper did you?" I told him to crack it in half if he had to. All in all, not a bad day, the new wiper works wonderfully.