I did a really dumb thing the other day. (Psst, promise not to tell my son. What he doesn’t know won’t hurt me.)

This dumb thing involved the package of baby wipes I keep in my car. Yes, even though my son is way long past the age of poopy diapers, baby wipes remain a handy and indispensable accessory for my car.

Let’s face it, at any age, spit still happens, along with other wipable accidents.

I’ve used my baby wipes to clean up coffee spills on the seat covers, bird doo-doo from the hood,  axle grease on the steering wheel left behind by mechanics at the repair shop.

So, why couldn’t I use baby wipes to clean off the dirty windshield and sideview mirrors the other morning? I’ll tell you why not: Because baby wipes leave behind a smeary, filmy residue on windshields and mirrors. Only I didn’t find that out until after I had tried it.

See what I mean? Dumb.

I tried to clear it up with the windshield wiper, but the water in that reservoir leaves behind its own mess. Which is why I didn’t resort to that in the first place.

So then I had to pull over by the side of the road, fish a dirty towel out of the trunk and use what was left of my precious drinking water to try and clean it off. Less smeary, less filmy, but evidence of my dumbditude remained.

Nothing left to do but actually wash the car with a bucket of soap and the water hose this weekend.

Oh joy.

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