{"id":1744,"date":"2012-03-15T07:37:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2012-03-14T18:09:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T00:09:32","slug":"a-non-pornographic-car-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2012\/a-non-pornographic-car-wash.html","title":{"rendered":"A non-pornographic Car Wash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And I’m just not real excited about using a car wash that would promote itself that way.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Around here, people keep their vehicles sparkling clean<\/font>, generally speaking.<\/b>  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.<\/p>\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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??<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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