Armorall Ultra Shine Caution

[Patton]

Have you ever seen the engine cowling on a B-17? During the 2nd big one, after the allies had air supremacy over Germany they didn't really need to waste paint camouflaging the planes from above so they left them in all their bare steel glory. Except for "victory stripes" to help prevent friendly fire and a noticeable matte black, gray or olive drab square on the side of the cowling that faces the pilots and on the portion of nose that the pilots can see. It was typical of all allied planes at that time, just to me most memorable on the B-17. The point of all of this History Channel blabber is that I came to a sudden and rather dangerous realization that a MATTE finish is MANDATORY on your freakin dashboard, whether its spotting that goddamn minivan that just casually drifted into the fast lane going 60, or letting the top turret know that the Hun is closing in at 9'oclock high,... GLOSS IS BAD.

I put Armorall ultra shine on all non optic plastics during this months in depth interior cleaning (Which looks BEAUTIFUL!!!) and forgot that the dash has a lot to do with optics... Everything was fine until I turned into the sun on the freeway at about 80mph, and BAM THE SUN APPEARED ON MY WINDOW. I literally had to pull over slowly and take the next exit with one hand up to block the blinding mirror like reflection, all of this was with sunglasses on! I had to gently remove the ultra shine from the dashboard which took at least a good 20 minutes to bring it to an acceptable level. Which is still brighter than I would like, I suspect it will take some time for the shine to completely wear off.
It might sound a little over dramatic, but trust me it isn't, I was absolutely unable to see out of the windshield... Although I’m sure most of you didn’t need to figure that out the hard way, I figured I would share my total DUMB@SS moment to maybe save another from a potentially hazardous situation.