Have you ever flipped a coin to decide if you wanted to go to work?
Seems a bit irresponsible, but it’s a use it or lose it situation and the end of the year is closing in. Besides it gave me time to get a few things done, like clean up carmuck.
I woke up a few Fridays ago, took a shower and got dressed for work. Thought about it, and saw the coin. Heads I stay home, tails it’s back to the grind. Heads it was.
I put on a pair of shorts and went down to my car to clean it out.
I don’t know how many people have coins lying about their car, but it’s a common occurrence in my life. Coins seem to gravitate towards my car floor, who knows maybe it’s because of gravity, but whatever the reason they were there, and they need picking up.
Yuk.
Yuk you say, no yuk I say, Why do I say yuk? You know why I say Yuk. If you’ve ever picked up coins in my cars, you know why. And I’m betting if you ever picked up coins in your car you know why, but I may be wrong. Hell maybe it’s just me and my cars. Maybe I have the only proper atmosphere for creating the perfect conditions …. But then again maybe it’s just not me.
Carmuck, yup I call it Carmuck to (coin a phrase) that greasy, grimy nasty crap that coats the coins and seems to never go away. It’s most likely a combination of grease from the fittings, dust, dirt, sock lint, dead people, lost food, gorillas, the kitchen sink, and some sort of adhesive that works on a molecular level.
Carmuck has the innate ability to not go away…ever. Once a coin is tainted with Carmuck it’s tainted for life. The other freaky quality it has, is what I like to call the crying game effect. That is to say, much like the fruitless effort of ridding yourself from that smell of climbing out of a chum bucket after fishing you can’t seem to shake the grimy feeling of Carmuck. Sure you can wash yourself, 15 times but you never feel clean, much like in the Crying Game, no shower will ever clean yourself of that feeling. It just has to wear off in it’s own time, (not that the crying game will ever wear off, but Carmuck eventually will).
Am I the only one who has ever suffered from Carmuck? And is there any cure for the common muck?
