“The rain was just heavy enough so that he needed his wipers, but light enough so that if he kept them on, the windshield would begin to streak. The Suzuki was a base model: four cylinders, five speeds, two doors, and not much else. He’d passed up shelling out an additional $2,000 for something they called a “convenience package,” that would have given him tinted glass, a rear-window defroster, intermittent wipers, a locking center console, a lighted vanity mirror, and a couple of other things t...hat had struck him at the time as totally frivolous. He’d have liked the intermittent wipers, but naturally they wouldn’t sell him those without the rest of the deal - they knew what they were doing. So now he drove with one hand on the steering wheel and one on the wiper control, flicking it on and off every five seconds or so, so that the blades would make a single pass across the windshield before returning to rest. Manual intermittent wipers, he called them. The icy rain had turned to the regular variety by the time Fielder reached the courthouse, but he saw right away that it hadn’t kept the public away.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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