Here's one of those funny incidents which could happen to almost anyone these days ;-) "A bad experience with car wash and bird poop".
“Home sweet home,” Mr Lim muttered as he drove his car into the carpark
near his flat. It was a sweltering hot
Saturday afternoon. My Lim and his wife,
Mrs Lim, were returning from a day of shopping. They were driving around looking for an available parking lot. Sunlight
poured through Mr Lim’s car windows. The air-conditioner could not cope with the sweltering heat, plus it was
extremely challenging for Mr Lim to concentrate in the blazing hot sun.
At that juncture, Mrs Lim spotted an
available parking lot under a Flame of the Forest tree. She gesticulated
excitedly, “Honey, why don’t you park your car under that Flame of the
Forest tree? Besides, it would provide
shade for the car from the scorching sun.” “Great suggestion,” Mr Lim agreed as he proceeded to park his car under
the spanning shade of the Flame of the Forest tree.
It was a route that Sunday was the
day Mr Lim washed his car. All geared up
with his car washing equipment, he
whistled gaily but stopped short when he reached his car. Mr Lim looked on in dismay at his car now draped over by an unsightly
patchwork of bird poop. He blinked in astonishment and rubbed his eyes
in disbelief. Recovering from his
shock, Mr Lim took a photograph of his car with his camera phone. Then without
a moment to lose, he gathered water in a pail before rushing to clean the filth off his car, as industrious as a beaver.
An hour later, as Mr Lim looked on
in relief at his sparkling clean car, his thoughts
were jarred by the rumbling sound of thunder. Like a
jack out of the box, a flash of lightning streaked across the sky. Black
clouds gathered quickly overhead, shrouding the morning sky with their velvet
cloak. All at once, the heavens opened and rain started pouring down in
torrents. As swift as a deer, Mr Lim sought shelter at a nearby coffee
shop. Half an hour later and the storm
had finally passed over. Mr Lim returned
to his car with trepidation. His car was covered once again with leaves
and dirt. The rainwater caused the car
to be dirty once again. Seeing the state
of this car after the heavy downpour, he bit
his lips in vexation and with a sigh, he walked over to his car yet once
again to do a second wash. An hour later,
Mr Lim trudged home exhaustedly.
Reaching home, he showed the photograph of his car with the bird poop to
Mrs Lim. On seeing the photograph, Mrs
Lim exclaimed ruefully, “Oh dear,”
as she turned to the pink of her ears. She was apologetic that her husband had a hard time washing his car.
Since
that incident, Mrs Lim never again ventured to suggest to Mr Lim to park his
car under a tree.
See you later,
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