confused

it's ginkgo tree season, which means two things:

1. your car will be covered in these stupid little white flower things. after a few weeks of trying to brush them off your car, you give up because three seconds after you brush them off, your car is covered again. so you surrender and instead drive around looking like some sort of fairy who decorated their car with flowers.

2. your street, which happens to be lined with these stupid trees, will smell like diapers and semen.

according to the internet (are there any other sources of information nowadays?), the horrible smell produced by these trees comes from the over-ripe-ness of the "female fruit." and we all thought sexism was dead.

so why plant ten of them on every block? one reason is that they are actually kind of pretty, if you have a stuffy nose or are lacking a sense of smell completely. and they're hardy, meaning that whatever city department is in charge of tree-lining streets can save money by only working once every fifty years. apparently, four ginkgo trees survived the bombing at hiroshima and are still standing today. another fun fact: this certain species of tree has existed since dinosaurs roamed the earth, and many contain prehistoric fossils.

okay, so maybe that aren't all that bad, if your into beauty and nature and preserving history.

but do you know what i'm into? MY STREET NOT SMELLING LIKE CURDLED MILK!!!

supposedly we only have to put up with this til july, when the female trees stop being bitches and smell nice again. until then... beware...