Sunday 29 April 2012

MrGrumpy's Saturday



It was another weekend, MrGrumpy was at a loose end, he did not want to drive too far, but did not want to just sit inside as the weather was nice again. He decided to got the the AutoZone and buy car cleaning stuff as the mustang was looking like it has been dug out of a sand dune. This was not too difficult, he got  a bucket, sponge, cloths, car wash, some new car mats and given his issues recently with tyres, he also got a 12v tyre pump.

Driving back he saw a WallMart and a Best Buy, he needed a couple of things so it was off to do a little more shopping. As usual he walked aimless around the store, finding it difficult to choose what he wanted. As he continued his quest to find something like cream crackers, he found cans of easy-cheese, how can cheese come in a can?
Finally after traversing the store several times his trolley still only contained a few items, crisps (chips for the US readers), Special K, windscreen washer fluid (forgot in AutoZone) a bag of M&Ms and a pair of shorts.
Following this he took a look in BestBuy, still not knowing what he was doing in there, he assumed there must be some gadget worth buying. No he was wrong, nothing in the store was shouting "buy me" so he left and returned to home. It was now nearly lunchtime, MrGrumpy changed into his newly purchased shorts and went out for a drive.


He did not have a specific destination, he was going to head up the twisty Highway 9 from Saratoga and see where he ended up. Through the tight turns the mustang handled quite well, MrGrumpy was wondering how nice it would be to drive the Porsche or ride the BMW on this road.  He was not going very quickly, but kept catching up with people who really were unable to cope with twisty roads, especially MrBWM328i, who seemed incapable of going above 25MPH... as the road continued winding through the woods, the narrow road leaves very little room for error, especially with cars coming the other way. Finally the road pops out of the trees at Santa Cruz, MrGrumpy found another nice spot to park the car and take a walk along the west cliffs of Santa Cruz.
While standing on the cliffs, watching the waves breaking on the shore, he felt something nibbling at the back of his foot. He looks down to see some small rodent scurrying back into its hole. Continuing to watch it pops back out again, nibbles a leaf and darts back into its hole. It did not look like a rat, more like a small wack-a-mole.

1 comment:

  1. You should really go back and try the easy cheese ! Perhaps you did and thats what the rat was after :-)

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