Thursday, November 5, 2009

Useless Leaf Machines

I have officially discovered one of the most pointless, useless, inefficient machines on Michigan's campus. I would like to call it "The Leaf Pusher Arounder" with a tag line that reads something like this "A Poor Substitute to Good Old Fashioned Manual Labor." This machine looks a little bit like a mini street cleaner, with the quick rotating sweeps and everything...the only difference is that with the key word being "mini," the driver doesn't fit inside the cab nearly as well. I have come to find out that there is a consistent face for "Goodness gracious this thing is tiny get me out of here." Basically, they all just look miserable. It's similar to that face that everyone gets when there are far too many people squashed inside a car...
Anyways...this not-so-handy-dandy machine zips about collecting a major back up of leaves under its belly, and actually ends up missing about half of them or spewing out the overflow making it even more work to have to go back and get them again. It also has an extremely difficult time depositing the leaves when it wants to since they're all stuck in the crazy spinning broom. Basically, if the driver of the tiny Leaf Pusher Arounder and all his friends that stand around and watch were each to pick up, oh I don't know, a broom or something....(weird, I know) the job could be done in half the time. They just wouldn't be nearly as entertained...or squashed...and would actually have to put forth some effort...
That just might be asking too much...

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Woopdy Doo. Head Lamps.

The construction workers across the street have high-tech helmets complete with HEAD LAMPS on them. Yeah. Lights, fastened to the front of their la-dee-fricken-dah helmets. Most likely so they can see the crazy girl across the street when she attacks, that girl being yours truly. Due to the fact that it is nearing one in the morning and this is most definitely NOT the first night these shenanigans have occurred, I felt the need to open up my window and let a few things be heard. I was mostly nice, but it was also very clear that they could hear me since when I let out a frustrated scream slash yell of sorts, hard hat McGee and his idiot friend both turned straight toward me and stopped banging on the metal parking garage infrastructure. Jesus H.
That is all. I shall now attempt to sleep...because I think they might have just left...then again, they'll be back right around five in the morning so I best be gettin' my full four hours of sleep in.
Awesome. Blossom.