windshield wipers

so, i think my windshield wipers suck. i must admit, i haven't had them replaced since i got the car six years ago. one of the rubber strips from one of the wipers is no longer attached to the blade, and it sort of wisps around, swirling the condensation without actually clearing it. that sucks. to make matters worse, my defrost doesn't work. not really well, anyway. to top it all off, i am out of fluid, and it will take at least two months of my being pissed off at that fact to motivate me to do something about it (i.e. spend two dollars and five minutes refilling the resevoir).

but more than that, the wiper settings on my car are a total engineering error. the average "wipes-per-minute" disparity between the three settings is alarming. i was sitting behind an suv this morning, trying desperately to mimic the rate at which his/her wipers were wiping. futile. my cars wipers suck. my car, like most, has three settings; high, low, and the one where you get to adjust the wipe rate from "occasionally" to "once-in-a-while". only, on my car, the third option is more like "once-in-a-while" to "is-this-thing-on?". the difference in wipe rate between my "low" setting and my "once-in-a-blue-moon" setting is intolerable. like goldeylocks, i need something in the middle. perhaps i can carjack that little bear. i bet he's driving by now.