true story --- on the wife's Cabriolet


the wiper blades worked fine but the fluid for the wipers wasn't ---


nothing was passing through when you tried to clean the windows ---


two of her brothers looked at the situation but could not figure out why nothing was passing through the wiper fluid hose.

*** both brothers knew a thing or two about cars...


both gave up trying to figure it out --

not being able to clean the windows on a yucky day drove me nuts (even though l didn't drive the car very much).

one day l couldn't take it anymore so l looked it the problem ---

l could here the motor/pump for the wiper working, it was coming out but just a trickle --- l fiddled with this, l fiddled with that... turns out, a mouse had fallen into the container where the fluid was held at some unknown point in time... it had been there so long the hair on the mouse came off and plugged up the line. l was able to detach the line and free up all that mouse hair. took the mouse out of the container. funny, it looked like something you'd see in a school science lab. l set the mouse aside and it was crazy, within about half a days time, the mouse shrank into this tiny little strip, looking a lot like a strip of beef jerky (although, l must say, it didn't taste anything like beefy jerky).


Reminded my of a rhyme:

Love to eat them mices..
Mices what love to eat...
Bite them little heads off...

and nibble on they tiny feet...

 my wife had the Wolfsburg addition of a VW like that --- it wasn't a soft top but it did have a huge moon roof so it was close enough. that thing was fun to drive, it could rip a corner like it was on rails.

 nice wheels !!!...that car looks so clean, definitely did not spend much time outside during winter...

 Sick unit!