# Using windshield wipers correlates with small genital size? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 15, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587 "2001-10-15T23:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/21 "2001-10-17T17:42:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pammipoo \* > \*\*When I was driving back from Ontario a few months back, I hit a massive rainstorm in Montreal. This thing was practically a monsoon. I had my wipers on high, could barely see the hood of my car. Traffic was going about 25 mph, tops. And that still felt too fast. The car behind me honked, so I moved to the next lane over so they could pass, and the guy flys by me, with no wipers at all on! 20 minutes later, I saw him in the median. \*\* You could barely see your hood, but you could see into the next care well enough to identify gender? Just for the record: I am perfectly willing to turn on my windshield wipers when my vision is being obstructed. I am perfectly capable of making the determination that my vision is being obstructed. My car does not have intermittent wipers; just off, on, faster. If it is only a sprinkle I will play human intermittent wiper. If you feel I should turn them on just ask me and I will likely accommodate, but DO NOT REACH OVER AND TURN THEM ON FOR ME. Now explain to me the dumbfucks who refuse to drive faster than 40mph at the first sign of a sprinkle. In normal rain, it is completely safe to drive normal freeway speeds (on a freeway), just leave a bit more room around you. ---
**Author:** ![Venkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ec9cab/32.png) [@Venkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venkman)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/22 "2001-10-17T20:16:48Z")
This is something my wife and I fight about periodically. I tend to use my wipers at much lower settings than she would like. The thing is I find the wipers going by somewhat distracting, and up to a point find looking through the raindrops on the windshield easier than having the wipers distract my vision. In those cases I honestly believe I’m being safer by not having the wipers on. My wife on the other hand is just the opposite and finds any rain on the windshield to be very distracting. I wonder if this might be a genuine physical difference between male and female brains - anybody have any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/23 "2001-10-17T20:21:50Z")
Maybe you’re right, Venkman. My wife always gets pissed if I don’t raise the hood when it starts to sprinkle. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/24 "2001-10-18T01:04:22Z")
Wouldn’t raising the hood make it even more difficult to see? ---
**Author:** ![Demise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/25 "2001-10-18T03:51:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obfusciatrist \* > \*\*Wouldn’t raising the hood make it even more difficult to see? \*\* **lieu** just made a metaphor about urinating. It was actually fairly funny, given the context. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/26 "2001-10-18T04:34:13Z")
Ok, I’m not generally whooshed so easily. But if raising the hood is some metaphor for peeing, then I’m not getting it. Can someone explain? ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/27 "2001-10-18T05:00:18Z")
Has this thread been hijacked? ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/28 "2001-10-18T12:51:48Z")
**obfusciatrist** : hood = toilet seat Clear? ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/29 "2001-10-18T13:32:36Z")
Geez, was it really a urination joke? I thought in England, “hood” = convertible top. ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/30 "2001-10-18T13:51:28Z")
Well, that’s bizarre. But possible. They live in flats that aren’t on ground floor, they write on pads, they keep rubbers in their desks… This is the same language, right? ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/31 "2001-10-18T21:42:58Z")
Ok, was it a pee joke or a comment on driving in convertables? ---
**Author:** ![Demise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/32 "2001-10-18T21:57:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rocketeer \* > \*\*I thought in England, “hood” = convertible top. \*\* Well, in England that could be true. However, **lieu** is a Texan. ---
**Author:** ![CheapBastid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587/33 "2001-10-18T22:03:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Demo \* > \*\*Why don’t you go fuck yourself?! I’ll drive any god damn way I want to! Next you’re going to start telling me to use turn signals and go the speed limit, right? You pansy fuckers can take your windshield wipers and shove them straight up your asses! > > Real men drive naked, with no windshield, in the rain, drinking a 40 of OE, their only protection being a thin coat of Rain-X on their eyeballs. \*\* Rain-X is for girlie men. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-windshield-wipers-correlates-with-small-genital-size/87587.md?page=1)