Today, my mom left for our summer cottage, so she took the car. I stayed here and, like usual, called her later to make sure that she had gotten there without any trouble. But there had been trouble. Apparently halfway there, my mom noticed that the windshield was getting too dirty, so she switched on the windshield wipers... Lo and behold, the wipers had been stolen! Our car is a 2001 Toyota and has unique windshield wipers, so buying temporary cheap ones was out of the question. Neither of us realized that the wipers were gone when I helped her to pack stuff in the car. Now, she's supposed to be coming back on Sunday and hope for no rainstorms... Nothing like this has ever happened before, although some people here tend to steal windshield wipers from nearby parked cars if the ones they have are crappy, rather than going to the store and bying a new pair... I'm quite mad right now.