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...

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