A failed clue

Well my clue of last night.

Jai updated her guess from a car to a bus.  

Well you are getting closer it is public transport 50%

Carolyn gave up on police lights and admitted she was stumped.

I can see that so 30%

Susan switched from front lights on a vehicle to “dashboard indicators”

Well Susan I guess your first score is 50% but that falls to 20% for the second one!

Jennifer (AKA Old Kitty)

Went from “ a truck” to “an automobile” to surrendering!

20%

John G said “a sedan”

20%

And John D said “A Toyota Celica front end grill!”

I remember those Celicas and the piccie looked very like one! I’ll award special points of 40% for that!

Well Jai is the closest, but

 The clue from yesterday showed it was a vehicle that can travel in either direction.

Trains do that, but they don’t need indicators. So what is it?

Well when Aussies think of Melbourne their first thought is usually “cold wet and miserable”

And to be fair Melbourne has lived up to that reputation this past winter.

Then the next thing they think is “Trams”

And that is the solution to our problem. A Melbourne Tram.

This one is turning out of Spring Street in front of the Victorian Parliament House, into the top end of Burke Street.

To be fair to John D who is also an Aussie the mental image trams usually conjure is an old fashioned “W Class” not an ugly 1980’s vintage machine like this one

Like trains they travel happily in either direction so they have headlights at both ends.

Unlike trains they share the roads with other vehicles so they need brake lights at both ends and indicators as well.

A "W Class"

In which Al admits he has no idea

Well the title of this post says it all.

More often than not when I think I have posted an easy WIIW nobody gets it. But when I post one that I think is tricky a number of people score a bulls-eye.

With this image I thought I would misdirect people.To be fair to myself a few people did take the bait (welcome back Anne) and guess a drain of a shower or bathroom.

Others like Carolyn V and John D came pretty close by guessing a ceiling.

Two people got close enough for me to award a good 90%. Jai (who also guessed shower but came back with her second guess) and Kristen M guessed a bus ceiling and an airplane ceiling. Well you both picked it as a speaker and a ceiling but it is neither a bus nor an aircraft.

Here is the image I cropped fromIt is the inside of a “W class” tram from the 1950s.This is what they look like from the outside. They still run them in Melbourne and they are very popular with tourists. Commuters generally prefer 21st century ones like this.