What do you think should be an appropriate response? After waving them away (which they usually ignore) and saying “No, go away!” out the window (which they usually ignore) and having to put up with them wiping your windshield which you did not want and did not contract for (though they seem to feel you owe them something anyway) while you must remain stationary because you are facing a red light, what do you suggest would be an appropriate, safe response?
Ignoring them. If they become verbally or physically abusive, calling the police.
Come on, Kythereia. You’ve been here long enough to know that anything that annoys a Doper, in any way, to any extent, cannot be tolerated. It must be met with swift and forceful retaliation. There’s no such thing as shrugging it off and getting on with your day, much less your life. Someone must pay.
Nothing wrong with being childish occasionally. Besides, no-ones stopping them annoying moterists, so why shouldn’t motorists annoy them (and it is just an annoyance, unless they drink the stuff it’s not going to harm them)
They have no right to be doing anything to peoples cars. Normally people are commended for calling people on anti-social behavior, or does that only apply when it’s something you don’t like.
Fine with me, as long as it’s proportional to the original offense, I’m all for retaliation. “An eye for an eye” is one of the few things religion got right, IMHO.
It’s not just a general someone though, it’s the person who committed the offense.
Grr. Argh. 
I couldn’t agree more, Madam! Would that we all instead strove to enjoy life’s simple pleasures, exempli gratia, the delicate floral bloom—a gift of Nature—like the daisy displayed here on my very lapel, whose fragrance I’m sure Madam will enjoy if she leans in closely…
I’m not falling for that one [del]again[/del]!
DCTrekkie, I guess I just don’t see what a faceful of washer fluid is going to accomplish. Yeah, it could drive the squeegee kid away. It could also result in the squeegee kid getting royally pissed and doing some real damage to your windshield–or the driver.
Why bother escalating the situation? It’s incredibly annoying, but at most it’s two minutes of idling while the light changes.
'cause it feels good, and assists in the cleanliness and, nay I say it, beautification, of an otherwise unwashed portion of our populace.
Don’t want to hijack further - but toxic wiper fluid? :eek: :eek:
Normally the only thing in my “wiper fluid” is water.
How many people actually put methanol-based stuff in there? Crazeee. :rolleyes:
You don’t get much below freezing weathing in Brisbane, do you?
Ahhhhhhhh, he says as the penny drops. :smack: 
That’s what I get for living in a sub-tropical paradise where in the deepest darkest depths of winter I might, just occasionly, have cause to wear a jumper early in the morning or after dark. 