Years ago I used to frequently take vee-hickles to the car wash. I would gather up a bunch of quarters – I always had quarters around from being a parent teacher org treasurer. Oh don’t worry, I didn’t steal them. I replaced them with ten dollar bills or whatever. I would pull into one of the do-it-yourself bays, stuff my quarters in, and manually wash my car.

Today, since we and our jet-setting beach urchin were all back in town (she met up with Cally-forny friends in Portland(ia) for a Rilo Kiley concert), we took her out to lunch. That means she came over here and drove us old bags over to a restaurant (The Session Room) in *our* vee-hickle (Cygnus X-1) and we paid for lunch. Not that she can’t buy her own lunch but my parents always paid for restaurant lunches when I was an adult and I feel compelled to continue that tradition. Eventually The Commander got to the point where handling that bit of business became a little too much and I happily took it off her plate. Thanks for all those years moom, I’ve got this one!

At one point in our lunch conversation the GG was grouching about how dirty Cygnus was. So when we left the restaurant, our driver hung a louie instead of a right and, as I immediately figured out, drove us into the car wash across the street. We did not wash Cygnus manually. We hooked up with the conveyor belt. Car in neutral, hands off steering wheel, don’t touch the brakes. And! Maybe most importantly, turn off the collision sensors if you have them, which Cygnus does. I don’t ever turn them off and don’t really know how because I drive like a little old lady and they don’t usually get triggered (unless I’m backing up into a big mullein plant behind the moomingarage). But we figured it out. And that place is sooooo fancy these days! In ways I can’t even begin to explain.

In other news (of the weird), the talk of the northern Great Lake State is that a *possum* was crossing the Mackinac Bridge on the “pedestrian walkway”. It was going north and was more than half way across the five mile span when it was rescued and returned to the Mackinaw City area (yes there are two ways to spell that). I found this link on Reddit. It doesn’t look like you have to pay to get to Reddit but who knows. It shows the possum traveling on the “pedestrian walkway”.

A couple of things: 1) Pedestrians are not allowed on the Big Mack except on Labor Day. This walkway is for emergency use only. 2) I have never seen or heard of a possum in the yooperland and didn’t think they lived that far north. There are plenty of them here on The Planet Ann Arbor including in “my” little woods (behind my house).

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