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TIFU demanding a refund for perfectly good windshield wipers.i

so, I recently have been struggling with shitty broken windshield wipers and during the last storm almost crashed because of poor visibility.

We were due for some snow so I went to Auto Zone and shelled out a small fortune for top of the line wipers. I installed them myself with a little help from google and proudly drove off.

The wipers had bright yellow blades which I thought was odd but since they were the heavy duty kind, I just shrugged it off and assumed that they were a more durable kind of rubber.

I was very excited to try them out when the snow came and when the moment came where they were needed, I flicked them on anticipating a spotless windshield.

Well, they… Sucked. Like, they smeared ice all over the windshield and basically did nothing.

I was pissed but thought maybe they just needed to be broken in or that I installed them wrong. Today, after I dug out my car and started driving, I noticed that one of the yellow wiper blades was hanging off. Already. This was the last straw and I was pissed. No one was going to swindle me with defective windshield wipers.

I put on my Karen haircut and after rehearsing my speech a few times, I marched back into Auto Zone and demanded a refund.

The guy asked if he could see them and when he looked he started smirking. He reached over, pulled off what I thought were the yellow blades and handed them to me. They were plastic covers for the actual blades. The real blades actually worked great.

I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t speak and just nodded and drove home.

TL;DR I demanded a refund for perfectly g good windshield wipers because I did not know I had to take the yellow blade covers off.

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