Well...to begin with....we were kinda poor. I live in a city where the ground is 70 percent clay (black clay). So if you're poor and you have a tiny house with a driveway and it rains (it rains a lot here) then you're gonna get these giant mud holes in the clay. Ever been stuck in clay?? It's slick slippery, goooey glue, if that makes any sense. We'd be out there on the weekends (all of us) pushing on the car to help get it out into the street so we could go to the store or ask a neighbor to get a chain and pull us out into the street. Anyway, the only way my Dad could afford to make the driveway usable was to use the cheapest method......Oyster shells!! You put a thick enough layer of oyster shells into the clay it will form a semi-hard layer to drive on. Remember, this was back in the 50s and 60s. Unfortunately, if you kinda poor, you also can't afford to pay a mechanic to fix your car sooooooooo, we had to do all the mechanic work ourselves, on the oyster shell driveway. I couldn't eat an oyster if you wrapped it in a steak!!!! And yes, from time to time we'd find a piece of cardboard to use as protection but it wouldn't take long for the cardboard to be cut to shreds. treblig
