Brmm Brmm or The Man from Japan

[threemonkeys]

At work, we have an employee of the month system. The winner gets various rewards including a special car park - right beside the main entrance and sheltered. Its well away from the building site adjacent spot that the likes of me parks in.

This month the winner does not have a car. So the parking spot got raffled off for charity. I was quite happy to throw a couple of bucks in for the charity but I really wasn't sure that I wanted to win. That building site generates a lot of dust - my car is very dirty. Then lets not forget the seagulls and the salt spray that go with a seaside location. If I had won that spot I'd really have had to clean my car. That is too much to ask for parking convenience.

But today as I was walking back to my car, I noticed that I had grass growing from inside a wheel arch. Yep, that green stuff that they use to make lawns from. It was well rooted in too as I found when I tried to pull it loose. Perhaps now I have to clean my car.

Comments

[littenz.livejournal.com]

That brings weeding and picking of lowing hanging fruit to a whole new level. Have orchard, will travel.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

I was just wondering how one might mow it.

[littenz.livejournal.com]

Yes...
Using a weedeater would be hazardous to the paintwork. A very small flymo perhaps?

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

And a flymo wouldn't be hazardous to the paintwork?!

[littenz.livejournal.com]

Only if you used the standard hovercraft size. Something with the cutting area of a coffee mug could work okay. But getting any of them into the wheel arches would still be tricky.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

For what its worth, the grass was growing in a nook created by the way the wheel arch and the side skirt meet. A mower to get at that would have to be smaller than a 10c piece.

Interesting images one gets from this.

[austspecfic.livejournal.com]

Your car is a source of fertile ground????

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Around here, every grain of dirt is fertile.

Just why fertility and cars might go together leads to all kinds of thoughts that I'm not sure I need in my head right now.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

LOL!

I one had a leaky car that I drove very infrequently, as I lived very close to free-transit area.

Mid-spring in 2004, I noticed that the parcel shelf was covered in a 5cm layer of beautiful green grass.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is serious automotive horticulture.

My first car was really leaky and the carpet in the footwells was sodden all the time. The I discovered that under the carpet that the car had drain holes with a rubber bung in them - leave the bung out and the water just drained through. You have to wonder about a car manufacturer that deliberately engineers a car to cater for it being leaky.