This car wash in Como always reminds me of the fastest mouse in all Mexico: “Spidy” is also a popular Hispanic spelling of “Speedy”; and “Wasch”, a feasible, minority transliteration into Italian of “wash” which looks German to Brits, connects me to the Speedy Gonzales-themed Spanish-language Volkswagen Golf ad of a couple of years ago.
This extraordinary mental exertion is not of course why I haven’t been posting recently.
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