No more rats in the belfry, er, engine

No, we didn’t have Santa Claus come down our chimney this year. First of all, we don’t HAVE a chimney. And, being Jewish, Santa doesn’t usually visit our home anyway. Instead, as we awaited the first night of Chanukah, which fell on Christmas Day this year, for only the fourth time in the last 100 years and the first time since 2005. Instead, we had another not-so-lovely visitor to our home.

The week before the holiday, while driving ‘my” Kia Sportage, Larry and I noticed that the windshield wiper fluid wasn’t coming out when we tried to access it. A check under the hood showed what we had tho...