Kind of Like MacGyver, but Not!

When you are younger, usually up into your 20s, you don't mind having many inconveniences such as sleeping on the floor at the beach, camping, having cars break down because your vehicle is either old or not well kept, etc.  A lot of the reason you don't mind these inconveniences is because you are usually with your boyfriend/girlfriend or a group of friends, and you make it into an adventure.  Also, you generally have more time and less money, which cause you to come up with unique ways to deal with such situations, therefore, just putting a Band-Aid on the issue or problem.

Several such situations that I recall doing when I was younger, but refuse to do or feel as if I am beyond that point now, are sleeping on the floor of a beach house, camping anywhere (my own backyard, the beach, etc.).  Some specific situations include the following:

• I remember breaking down in a car during a snow storm one night and we ended up walking home.  That was fun and romantic.... back then.  Now, I would be pissed and probably give a lengthy lecture on how someone else doesn't take care of their car. 
• Also, a truck overheated when we were driving home from the beach and we ended up getting home by putting the heat on high. We thought we were so cool (no pun intended here, especially since it was 90 degrees out and we had the heat on) to have come up with such a creative idea. 
• Finally, and I am happy to say that this idea was not mine. One New Year's Eve, I was picked up by some friends for a New Year's Eve party in an old, white van.  It was raining and the windshield wipers were not working, so they (guys obviously) had attached a rope to each one, and inside, we pulled the wipers back and forth manually!  It is quite an interesting story now, but I have zero tolerance for this kind of stuff in my life now. I am reluctant to admit that this idea did kind of work.

Now that I am 'all grown up', I don't have any time for extra incidents like those above.  I about lose my mind when I hear that my husband runs out of gas and has no back up, and this happens to him many many times to this day.  Who does that now? Better yet, who is so dumb that they don't get it the first time and make sure that it doesn't happen again?  He still lives like he is in his 20s and expects his family to be ok with circumstances like that. (Just a small vent here on my part.)

One example of him imposing his circumstance tolerance on  his family, or just being lazy, is when my windshield wiper motor had broken and been very sporadic for about 3 months, and my husband said he would "take care of it".  Needless to say, on a 3-hour trip last fall, it started to rain and he had not fixed the motor.  (Thanks a lot DA!)  I thought I had put some Rain-X in the trunk a few months back just in case a situation like this arose.  I pulled over and took everything out of the trunk and couldn't find it.  I called my husband, who had stayed at home, and told him what was going on.  He told me to "go find a Track Auto and.....".  I am on a highway, in the rain, in a different state, and this is what I hear?  A click, is what he heard as I hung up on him!  After I had heard him say to "go find a Track Auto", I didn't care what else he had to say!

I did end up finding the Rain-X in my trunk (I rock!), and later got the motor fixed....