Macau car wash

I was gonna write about this Macanese thing but there's two angles; A and B.
A. Everyone in New Zealand has a lawn and lotsa people don't have time, or energy to mow them every 2-3-4 weeks so guys and gals have lawn-mowing rounds. Energetic? You can mow 10-15 lawns a day.. But Macau has no lawns and has lotsa shiny cars so the guys have car-wash rounds. I did wonder what the guys on their scooters with a bucket and a long feather duster were up to, and finally noticed they wash cars, wherever they're parked on the street. - see pic. The guy in the pic has a mobike but most have scooters, and the thing in his hand is a feather duster about a metre long.

I've heard of guys in NZ mowing the wrong lawn cos they found the wrong address, so I spose a guy in a hurry could wash the wrong car...

B. Most of the car owning world, ya drive to the car wash when your car is dirty. There were big queues in Milan on Saturday as guys waited to get their shiny little bonnet all sparkling for the traffic jam on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Milanese all have a little bonnet cos they've got little....engines. 1300s mostly. But in Macau the car wash drives to you, and does the deed while you're at work.

I stand corrected. I've seen about 5 lawns in Macau. City of half a million, only the few remaining peasants in the few remaining villages have a house, and the 5 nobs with lawns, apart from the stadium and maybe the racetrack. Everyone else has an apartment with a view of . . . the next apartment.

Original post blogged on Dodgy Business.