dude, I found this out first hand for the first time since owning the car for 6 mos...

drove home from Long Beach to SD, bout 100 miles ... beautiful sunny SoCal day..

got home and had the worst farmer arm tan, and my forehead was burnt... doesnt help that I am tall and my head sticks out and it was 100 mi into the facing sun ...

one of the best drives ever though, made it worth it

but i went straight to Target and got a small bottle of sunscreen for future unexpected top down sun drives...

 

About 1/10th as strenuous as riding my sportbike, which is far more often than time spent in the S.

 

I havent had anything fly into the car yet either but there was this one day at like 2-3 am i was driving home on a main road without that many lights and all of a sudden i see a tennis ball just bounce across the street and then hits the bumper of my car. I was shocked at first because it just came out of nowhere at 2-3 am. I still dont know how it happened... but it spooks me.

 

Random cigarette butts flying up and hitting the windsield!!! Yup, those inconciderate motorists who think the street is their own personal trashcan. You know the type.

Rocks/pebbles that join along for the ride (usually the passengers seat) during group drives. Better than when they hit me in the phase.

and then there was this one time. While sitting at a red light, a bus is idling next to me in the left hand turn lane. Outta nowhere, a grape comes flying across the sky and splats itself on the steering wheel!! Yup you guessed it ...........a drive-by fruiting!!!

 

My friend got spit on from someone on a streetcar while driving in downtown Toronto....

 

Spiders, mystery tennis balls, sunburns and grapes...

Keep 'em coming.

 

I hit a roadkill the size of a small animal (?dog). I had just gotten the car, it was a rainy morning, just rounded a curve on highway 13, a few miles from the Claremont Hotel at 60 MPH. I had the usual visibility to the side (poor) and didn't know if it was safe to move sideways. Didn't know, as I do now, that I might have been able swerve, although in the rain, at the risk of losing control. I hit it dead on, I think it launched me up a few inches. When I got to work, there was gore on the lower parts of the car. I hosed off what I could at home. The Honda dealership checked out the car, said it wasn't damaged, but, ugh, there was bits of meat hanging from the car, and, sorry, but they didn't do any clean-up work. They gave me the name of another guy down the street who might be able to clean up the mess. Mr. Ho had a small garage, had a steam-cleaning thing and cleaned off my car. He showed me the small pile of meat and charged me $150. Worth every penny of it. I was lucky to get it cleaned up before it smelled. Luckily I didn't have the front chin thing, would have shoved the mess into the radiator and engine compartment at 60 MPH.

 

My stupid parking pass flew out of mine, $40 for a new one.

 

There have been a couple times after a top-down drive that I've noticed bird poo on the roll hoops and/or plastic behind my seat. Warning shots, I suppose - so far I haven't been target directly!

 

Ive had a wasp come into the cab and chilled on my steering wheel at a light, I was freakin scared as hell (Im a lil beeotch when it comes to wasps) Im surprised I didnt get out at the light and started screaming, but my girl was with me so I had to look tough, i just waved it out, when the light turned green, Im surprised it didnt sting my ass.

Ive also had rocks picked up by cars in front of me come hit my head but nothing major.