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Stopped by AA on Thursday to get some new wiper blades for my truck. Strolled into the isle and had a finger raised to the machine that tells you what kind you need. A sales associate comes from behind the counter and insists that he can do it faster, because "That machine is always wrong, it'll be a mess." He finds the blades on his computer, suggests rain-x brand, and I check out. He offers to put them on, as they do at AA, and I say yes. I wait around for about 10 minutes because his coworker seems to have gone AWOL and he had other customers after me. Finally gets a chance to come out and change my blades, and I'm just casually standing at the hood, watching. He rolls his eyes at me and goes "Yes, I've done this many a time before."
Two days later, my nephew comes home from a sleepover, saying he had to pull over in the rain and fix the right hand blade because it was about to fly off. Hmm. Monday, Mom is taking me to work and has the wipers on. Right one flies off again. I looked at it when I got home that night and decided to have a look at the one that wasn't flying off to see if I could put the other one on the same way. Left hand blade falls off in my hand when I raised the wiper arm. We took it back to AA today and the employees looked at the name on my receipt and rolled their eyes. Turns out I have really wide wiper arms and they had to try five different brands before finding one that didn't fall off. Still aggravating though, that the guy stopped me from trying to find blades on my own, insisting he knew better, and then being somewhat snarky while putting on the blades. Gah. I'm just glad we didn't have to drive in any bad rainstorms or anything.
Two days later, my nephew comes home from a sleepover, saying he had to pull over in the rain and fix the right hand blade because it was about to fly off. Hmm. Monday, Mom is taking me to work and has the wipers on. Right one flies off again. I looked at it when I got home that night and decided to have a look at the one that wasn't flying off to see if I could put the other one on the same way. Left hand blade falls off in my hand when I raised the wiper arm. We took it back to AA today and the employees looked at the name on my receipt and rolled their eyes. Turns out I have really wide wiper arms and they had to try five different brands before finding one that didn't fall off. Still aggravating though, that the guy stopped me from trying to find blades on my own, insisting he knew better, and then being somewhat snarky while putting on the blades. Gah. I'm just glad we didn't have to drive in any bad rainstorms or anything.
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