Birds are like politicians

This afternoon I decided to wash the MX5, vacuum the mats and generally fettle it. Not a job I have to do very often because we only use it on fine days. Anyhow, I finished the job, rewound the hose, tidied everything away and was just about to put the car in the garage when I noticed a bird had crapped on the freshly washed boot lid.

We feed garden birds with loads of bird seed, put scraps on the lawn for them, keep the bird bath filled and one of the little sods crapped on the car just after I'd washed it.

Politicians do much the same. We give them a cushy job, salary and expenses way out of line with their abilities, vote for them when allowed and still they crap on us. The bird version can be wiped off of course, but not the political version.

There’s a lesson there somewhere.