THIS is why you pay attention in parking lots

Quite frequently, I am confronted with the fact that I just might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier.  I especially enjoy having this point driven home to me at the beginning of the summer here in the desert.  No, I don’t go out without water, even I know not to do that.

Here’s what happens, sadly, every year.  When the summer hits, everyone starts using their car windshield shades.  Not just to try to keep the heat down in the car (it doesn’t work but try to tell a native desert person that . . .) but to keep the sun from causing the steering wheel to heat up to 9000 degrees.  The sunshield actually does help with that, a little.  Don’t get all crazy, it was 107 today – so by saying it helps, I mean it’s possible to drive the car if you keep oven mitts in there.

Anyway, every year it takes me about a week to stop backing out of parking spaces before I take the shield down.  Then I freak out because I can’t see out of the windshield.  It’s like a comedy routine.  It’s like when I set the dish towels on fire and stand there with it burning – it takes me a minute to realize I need to zip the sunscreen out of the window toal see.  Idiot.

The above results in immediate contact with Amy via text:

June 15th “You cannot drive your car w the sun screen on.  Just like last summer.”

June 17th “Day 2. Still can’t drive w sun shield.  The communist are winning.” ***Amylynn here: I snort coffee out of my nose every time I get one of these.

I guess I don’t need to ever wonder why Amy never let’s me drive anywhere, even when I rarely offer to – she usually shouts “Good Gods NO, I’ll drive.  I want to get there today and not by using the right lane behind a bus the whole way.”  I always promise to take the sunshield down but that just results in an eye roll. ***Amylynn here again – It’s for all our sake’s that I drive. Really. You’re welcome.