Nah, old timers always remember to park the wipers manually, in the good old days we always had to do this, and double de-clutch, turn the lights off, WIND the windows up and then put a sheet of newspaper on the windscreen in case of frost. Screenwash was a sponge and scraper, and wipers had a switch marked "ON/OFF" nothing in between. On my old Ford Poplular (Circa 1958) the heater was an optional extra!!
Geoff