Today I decided to wash the car. No biggie I hear you say, but then I had to decide. Do I put the car on the front lawn and use a couple of buckets of water or do I go to the car wash. I debated the issue. If I go to the car wash I will have to rince the car then suds it up and I will end up with an over abundance of thick white suds which I feel is a waste of resource. If I don't go for the wax and shine, it will just need to be rinced and I can be on my way. Not a very environmentally friendly option as I would need to drive to the car wash and then back home a round trip of aprox. 8 k's. Then there is the electricity used to run my wash bay. So several negatives there.
If I was at home, 1 bucket of all in one car wash and shine and two buckets of clean water to rinse. I can wash it on the lawn- not that the lawn needs watering right now, in fact that is about the last thing it needs. OK go for the lawn option.
Parked the car on the lawn. Washed the right hand side and rinsed, so far so good. Then I noticed that my favourite turquoise runners were getting very wet and grotty so I changed into my flower patterned gumboots. Washed the front and left hand side, rinced, turned the hose on to refil the rince bucket. Left the end of the hose in the bucket to turn off the tap, the hose reared up out of the bucket and the spout of water hit my knee and proceeded to fill my gumboot up with water. Made a mad grab for the hose to put it back in the bucket and like an angry snake it reared away and sprayed the other leg of my jeans. - big sigh - Finished washing the car walked back around to the right hand side and the tree had dropped little orange blossums all over the right hand side. And they were not going to come off a hurry.
Maybe I should have gone to the car wash afterall.
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