Smelly car
We’ve had a very peripatetic end of the week and weekend, driving (it seemed) half way across the country a couple of times on various errands. I’m not particularly keen on driving at the best of times, but I feel like I don’t want to get back into my car for a least a couple of weeks. Part of this aversion is down to an unfortunate odour we picked up in Staffordshire.
As we were driving along, we smelt a very strong ‘country smell’. When it didn’t go away after a couple of miles, we began to think that perhaps all this was just the normal honk of Staffordshire. After we’d got back, I went back to the car to empty it out, and nearly keeled over with the stench of manure. It turns out that we were carrying the smell around with us; we followed a tractor for a while, and some splashes of the brown stuff seem to have made their way into every nook and cranny of our car, including the air intake. Every time we switch the air blowers on, we get blast of ‘eau du vache’ along with the cool air. I washed the car this morning, but this doesn’t seem to have eliminated the smell. Oh well, it will wear off eventually, I suppose, and we might be able to grow some prize tomatoes in the engine.
Good job we're not all the same!…
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My parents once did a similar thing - driving through a "funny coloured puddle" that happened to be beside a very broken-down muckspreader.
All I shall say is this - chicken manure's smell really, really lasts. The car shimmered for days from the waves of stench. Pressure hoses are recommended, along with prayers that the shite hasn't gone really inside the vents, or it'll last forever.----- Do you actually live in Staffordshire now then? For some reason I thought you were in Manchester? I used to live there, and my father just retired from being a lecturer at University of North Staffordshire.
by Nick @ 06/09/2004 5:09 pm • Permalink •
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Lyle: Hehe. I think it was pig (not that I'm any kind of manure connoisseur). Unfortunately we don't have a pressure hose, so I had to make do with chucking buckets of water, which had the side effect of transferring some of the muck to me :-(
Nick: Nope, we live in Birmingham. The trip to Staffs was to take some of Mr. Bsag's paintings to a gallery in Staffordshire to sell them.
by bsag @ 06/09/2004 6:10 pm • Permalink •
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I can smell it from here.
Wait
... no, that's my local farmer.
Isn't it strange what people keep for six months then drop all over the road on the way to the fields!
by pete @ 07/09/2004 6:09 pm • Permalink •
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While I now live in Los Angeles, and was born and raised in California, I spent a few years in the American Midwest. It was a fair-sized city, not as big as LA or New York or Chicago, but big enough. Still... small enough that if you drove about an hour out of the city you hit farmland.
For the first two years, I despised the smell. By the third year, though, I had grown accustomed to it and could even tell you what types of manure the farms were using. You haven't smelled nothin' 'till you've smelled freshly sprayed turkey manure, let me tell you.
Yeah, it was bad. But after living near all of those farms, to my nose it's become the scent of growing things, of fresh food, and of open land. Now, in a way, I rather miss the smell. I certainly don't mind it any more.
Except the turkey manure. I never could stand that.
by Nathan @ 09/09/2004 6:10 am • Permalink •
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LOL. I love the term "country smell". I'd be wary of colored puddles from now on during a drive.
by D Keyes @ 04/04/2008 8:40 am • Permalink •
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I am still wondering about this line : {As we were driving along, we smelt a very strong ‘country smell’}. What does it actually mean?
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Please guide me..
by New Cars @ 26/04/2008 9:38 am • Permalink •
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Hehehe country smell,well I wont say what I think that means!
by Mr Koenigsegg @ 11/05/2008 8:39 pm • Permalink •
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