Cruising home from a friend’s place, driving the kids to school, rolling home on the highway, you smile softly and focus on the road as your head bops to the stereo.
Suddenly clouds cover the sky, the air gets heavy, and big drops start pitter-pattering your windshield. Snare drum staccatos fill your car’s cabin and you quickly flip on your windshield wipers.
But if you’re lucky this is when the groove starts grooving and your car starts moving as you notice your wipers are timed perfectly to the stereo beats. Yes, without even trying your rusty bucket’s become a pitch-perfect concert hall on the highway.
Hands clapping, fingers tapping, you click your turn signal on so a little high-hat and dashboard disco light join your dance party on wheels. With your body bumping and your brain buzzing your one-man jam band rocks out in the fast lane.
You sorta feel like George Harrison in that video where his desk drawers, grandfather clock, and wall-mounted deer all get into it and start shaking to the tunes. It feels like everyone’s coming together for this great big booming moment. You smile and laugh and sing a long as cosmic energy swirls and the universe gives you a little wink to let you know everything’s unfolding according to plan.
AWESOME!
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24 Comments
January 11, 2010 at 12:45 am
It doesn’t rain much here at all so it’s always a pleasure when my blinker syncs with my music. Perchance one day I will experience the awesome of the windshield wiper harmonies :)
January 11, 2010 at 1:49 am
Haha this was on MLIA.
January 11, 2010 at 7:57 am
I suppose this is awesome, but I’ve never experienced this. Then again, I like some strange music. Oh well.
January 11, 2010 at 9:20 am
Ha! I was hoping you’d include that video! Nice one.
January 11, 2010 at 10:55 am
Haven’t experienced this one, that I remember. Did get to drive on the highway at 2am the other day! Awesome!
January 11, 2010 at 12:43 pm
AWESOME! Love it!!
January 11, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Does anyone remember that Volkswagen Synchronicity ad from back in the late 90′s??
January 11, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Thanks for sharing the VW video-
January 12, 2010 at 9:37 am
I totally thought of this ad when I read this awesome note.
January 11, 2010 at 1:21 pm
hahaha i thought i was the only one who noticed this
January 11, 2010 at 9:32 pm
That was fun when my radio worked. Good song by George Harrison on my must hear 80s songs list.
January 11, 2010 at 10:24 pm
It always brings a smile when I read your awesome blog, even just the title. thx :)
January 11, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Like Dana, reading this blog always makes me smile. Even when I feel like crap, I look forward to reading your awesomeness for the day. You make the world brighter for so many. Thanks!
January 12, 2010 at 4:55 am
Wow that what freaky. I thought of “I’ve got my mind set on you” before I even scrolled down and saw the video.
January 12, 2010 at 4:56 am
*was not what
January 12, 2010 at 2:18 pm
haha this is one of my favorite things you’ve put on this site.
January 19, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Wow! this is just spot on! I ‘ve had a many such moments and just love them, and when you crank up your wiper speed, and a new song starts with matching beats again! magic!
January 23, 2010 at 10:20 pm
I’m loving this song!
January 31, 2010 at 11:11 pm
The George Harrison video is fun, but this particular bit of awesomeness has an even better theme song: Eddie Rabbit’s soft-rockin’ truckers anthem, “Drivin’ My Life Away.” “Well the windshield wipers slappin’ out a rhythm, keepin’ perfect time with the song on the radio.” (Eddie yodels the “o” in “radio,” which really adds to the awesomeness, imho.) This dopey song is so catchy that I still—unwillingly—remember big chunks of lyrics 20 years after the last time I heard it. “Well a truck stop cutie, comin’ on to me, tried to talk me into a ride, but she was just a baby …” Stop me before I type the whole song!
February 1, 2010 at 8:53 am
So much fun if its Mika
February 5, 2010 at 7:15 am
You’ve really figured something out with this one. Seriously. This is awesome.
April 20, 2010 at 2:18 am
[...] you feel rejuvenated!), my friends that laugh at my stupid jokes (thanks Daddyo for that gene!), windshield wiper beats (I used to make patterns and beats out the wipers when I was a kid), building a fort (I even build [...]
May 26, 2010 at 5:43 pm
[...] #594 When your windshield wipers match the beat of the song you’re listening to [...]
August 2, 2010 at 8:52 pm
THANKYOU.
This is the first time I’ve visited your site – and I’ve been looking through posts for the last two hours. I LOVE this song, and its so under-utilised!