Artists impression of the shipping container to be used as metal shed by a country mechanic.
Dropping my son off at my mother’s this morning I was told it was all going to be fun and games on the quiet leafy country road that she lives on as her next door neighbour was having a shipping container delivered to his front garden. I can see the drama unfold in my mind as a large crane blocks the traffic for a good hour or so as it’s goliath sized arm drags the hulking steel box to it’s new resting place decimating the local tree population as it does so.
‘A shipping container?’ I recoiled in astonishment. ‘Full of what?’ I asked my mother. ‘Nothing’ she told me. It turns out that the neighbour is going to use it as a workshop. Once he’s removed all of the Chinese immigrants that have survived the long trip in this soon to be metal shed to my neighbours front garden (this I am kidding about) the neighbour is then setting up his home based mechanic shop within it. He has been working from his dilapidated old shed for years tinkering with racing cars of all things. He was once a racing driver himself, albeit at a low level, but his front room is full of shiny silver trophies and plates from those battling days on the asphalt.
I have seen shipping containers before and they are huge things and a metal shed of this kind placed in the front garden of your neighbour might just be a bit of an eyesore. But what a noise the firing up of racing car engines in the mechanics new metal shed will be. Revving engines on a quiet country morning will obviously raise a few eyebrows and annoyed stares. I have to say that the metal shed to be is going to be hidden in the side of the slight hill that his property is built on. I just hope that it isn’t a garish colour. Imagine a humungous bright pink or yellow metal shed nestled in the trees and shrubs of the estate slightly self-consciously thinking ‘Can anyone see me?’.
Subscribe