• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    This has bothered me for years. It’s a really strange thing to be telling younger relatives about how you legitimately could not drive any substantial distance without windshield cleaner at certain times of year. I remember them being plastered across the front edge of the hood and against the radiator after a long trip.

    It’s one of the most visibly different things about the world today, IMO, and it’s a little eerie.

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      5 months ago

      The sounds, too.

      I was talking with my dad walking near to a place that had frogs croaking, and he got a little emotional and excited to hear them over the phone. Normally it’s just traffic noises now, and silence.

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      5 months ago

      I remember the wasps always buzzing around the vehicle grills munching on all the dead bugs too. Now it’s just shiny and chrome.

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      5 months ago

      I still remember 10 years ago when I was driving on the Autobahn at 130 km/h and a juicy bug hit the windshield. It was literally a loud splat. Besides the grill always being covered in bugs.

      Hasn’t happened since, nowadays I can count the number of bugs on the grill with one hand. And that’s after months of driving.