Saturday, June 20, 2009

Black Leather in Summer

Once you get away from the beach around here the air dries out and the gets every bit as fierce as in Phoenix, not surprisingly, so plenty of people have windshield-sunshades to use while parked to keep the interior of the car from overheating, especially if they have black leather seats and matching interior like I do.

These shades are available at auto parts and discount stores and wherever really cheap stuff is sold, so maybe it should be less surprising than I found it - that the shade I bought, eventually, disintegrated, apparently from the heat - either that or the sun. Not right away, of course, and the part that showed its limited age the quickest was the black border which mostly turned into black soot-like dust to cover the dashboard and blow in my face when I put the fan on.

In other words, I no longer have a sun shade - though I still have the black leather seats, which heat up to an extent that they ought to be considered for an alternative energy source. Due to the sunshade dust, they may not be a "clean" alternative, and they may not be an entirely "safe" alternative - I'd put the temperature slightly north of the 140 degrees (60 degrees C) I think of as a practical limit, though this heat dissipates pretty quickly...

All in all causing me to long for a well, well-spanked bottom in a micro-skirt and thong panties...

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