BEHOLD!
The POWER of this SIMPLE household item!!
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Brace yourselves!
Are you SITTING DOWN?!
This is a photo of my truck after an all-day snowfall!
Six inches of snow!
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And, approximately ten minutes after I put on my coat, my gloves, and picked up this SIMPLE household item...
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*dramatic music swells, old ladies faint, babies wail in shock, young women fan themselves and even the strongest of men is moved to tears*
That's right! I cleared an entire day's worth of snowfall from my truck using just this simple household item. A humble broom! A BROOM IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!
A sword couldn't clear snow from a vehicle. It would just push it all around and scratch the living hell out of your paint job.
A BROOM IS MIGHTIER THAN THE PEN!!
A pen can't clear snow! Not only is it too small, it would cause similar, yet smaller scratches as the sword.
On top of all this... the broom, the snow...
I'm working with a slight handicap. How is this? You may remember my blog from a couple years ago when I pointed out that I walked with a cane. Well, thanks to medical advancements in the field of human/cyborg technology, I am now sporting a robotic knee joint. "Robotic" isn't the right word- it isn't free moving or independent from my body- but it is a metal body part and it is inside my human body. Therefore, I AM a cyborg. We prefer the term Cyborg Sapien.
Here is a portrait of my lovely new body part.
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He's handsome, isn't he?
I know what you're thinking- "You can clear the snow from your truck with a humble, simple broom because you have a bionic knee. I've seen the TV shows! Steve Austin, Jamie Sommers- they were bionic! They could run and jump and see and hear things! And don't forget that dog! There was a bionic dog!"
You're right. Those "characters" could do all that. But, Sparky, that's fiction. In reality, it takes time to get used to a cyborg body part. I spent six months learning how to walk all over again and after the first real snowfall we had, I'm re-learning how to walk again. My leg muscles were severed because of the surgery and while they're healed, they're still weak in comparison to even a normal person.
Want to see why and how they were severed? No? too bad...
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For fun, here's another view of my new best friend.
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Here's a taste of irony for you- I named him Steve Austin. That's right. I named him after the fictional character who could run and jump and see (the chick was the one who could hear).
So, what's my point?
If I can drag my gimpy-yet-better-than-last-year body out with my broom and clear the snow from my truck, you can do the same on that vehicle you drive. Tall or short, aside from a big-ass RV, a broom will get the job done.
The POWER of this SIMPLE household item!!
Brace yourselves!
Are you SITTING DOWN?!
This is a photo of my truck after an all-day snowfall!
Six inches of snow!
And, approximately ten minutes after I put on my coat, my gloves, and picked up this SIMPLE household item...
*dramatic music swells, old ladies faint, babies wail in shock, young women fan themselves and even the strongest of men is moved to tears*
That's right! I cleared an entire day's worth of snowfall from my truck using just this simple household item. A humble broom! A BROOM IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!
A sword couldn't clear snow from a vehicle. It would just push it all around and scratch the living hell out of your paint job.
A BROOM IS MIGHTIER THAN THE PEN!!
A pen can't clear snow! Not only is it too small, it would cause similar, yet smaller scratches as the sword.
On top of all this... the broom, the snow...
I'm working with a slight handicap. How is this? You may remember my blog from a couple years ago when I pointed out that I walked with a cane. Well, thanks to medical advancements in the field of human/cyborg technology, I am now sporting a robotic knee joint. "Robotic" isn't the right word- it isn't free moving or independent from my body- but it is a metal body part and it is inside my human body. Therefore, I AM a cyborg. We prefer the term Cyborg Sapien.
Here is a portrait of my lovely new body part.
He's handsome, isn't he?
I know what you're thinking- "You can clear the snow from your truck with a humble, simple broom because you have a bionic knee. I've seen the TV shows! Steve Austin, Jamie Sommers- they were bionic! They could run and jump and see and hear things! And don't forget that dog! There was a bionic dog!"
You're right. Those "characters" could do all that. But, Sparky, that's fiction. In reality, it takes time to get used to a cyborg body part. I spent six months learning how to walk all over again and after the first real snowfall we had, I'm re-learning how to walk again. My leg muscles were severed because of the surgery and while they're healed, they're still weak in comparison to even a normal person.
Want to see why and how they were severed? No? too bad...
For fun, here's another view of my new best friend.
Here's a taste of irony for you- I named him Steve Austin. That's right. I named him after the fictional character who could run and jump and see (the chick was the one who could hear).
So, what's my point?
If I can drag my gimpy-yet-better-than-last-year body out with my broom and clear the snow from my truck, you can do the same on that vehicle you drive. Tall or short, aside from a big-ass RV, a broom will get the job done.