A non-pornographic Car Wash
I’m not sure if you’ve ever had this issue to deal with, but I’ve been looking for a non-pornographic car wash.
Around here, the cool way to promote your car wash is to put a big sign on the road with a – well, no reason to go into detail. But a sign that I don’t want to look at.
And I’m just not real excited about using a car wash that would promote itself that way.
Two car washes that I’ve used here in town have since shut down. The car wash I’ve been using lately – well, they’ve put out one of those signs – a big huge one.
Lately I’ve noticed another car wash in town that just has a sign that says – well, "car wash". In Spanish, of course. Imagine that.
Around here, people keep their vehicles sparkling clean, generally speaking. I have a hard time keeping up with the Joneses and making the car wash such a priority. But yesterday I bit the bullet and went to the car wash I’d found.
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I drove in – hmmmmm – looks good … no objectionable posters or calendars … so far so good. They told me the wash would take about an hour (!), but I decided to wait.
Well, the good news is, they did a fairly good job with the wash. Ok, they destroyed some Pringles that I probably shouldn’t have bought anyway (but hey, I hadn’t had lunch yet!), but we won’t mention that. Although I think I may have left their tip in my pocket.
On the other hand, the loud pounding marijuana song was about the best music they played all afternoon. So I guess I still won’t be taking my kids along.
And the hour-long wait was actually almost an hour and 45 minutes. All right, so I had it washed inside and out, but I got the simplest, cheapest, package they had. How long would the super-deluxe wash take??
The worst part was that about half an hour in Shari messaged me to let me know she would need the van soon. At that point, I assumed I could make it. But by the time I was supposed to be leaving the van was hemmed in between two other vehicles, and … well, let’s just say Shari didn’t get her errands done.
So I found a non-pornographic car wash at last. But I can just not look at the signs – the music is harder to ignore. I guess I’ll keep looking…