just a little more thread creep seeing as this has jogged cherished memories,
of hazards owning open-top sports cars..


It was a rare lovely sunny afternoon, so imagine my delight to find an open top luxury sports car
ostentatiously parked out front of a local seaside bar;
and no exagerating the luxury, this was a brand new mega expensive Lamborghini
or some other similar elite top range millionaires dream car.

I'm a life long cyclist and pedestrian, and hard core lefty campaigner for public transport provision;
never even bothered taking a driving test...

Even so, despite my extremist transport ideology I'm still a relatively normal bloke,
and can still appreciate the aesthetic beauty of such a wonderful machine,
but...

it's obvious this fantastic vehicle did not belong to anyone local...

1 - few people within many miles of town could afford to own it

2 - only an out of towner would would park and leave such a valuable open top car unattended
directly under the main feeding flight path and hovering zone
of hundreds of flocking seagulls.

Unfortunately I could not hang around idly long enough to see look on the owners face
when he eventually returned to discover his amazing gleaming brand new paint finish,
the luxury leather seats and plush interior carpet,
devastated under a thick spattering of sticky fishy gull shit ....