Saturday, March 19, 2011

What Happens in the Car Wash...

...goes on someone's blog.

I try to keep my car clean. It's not easy in the transition between winter and spring, when it's 80 degrees F on one day and 30 on the next with snow on the ground. All this results in me dropping an entire paycheck's worth of quarters at the car wash.

And here's what I saw.

Two stalls were open, but I noticed there was something sitting on top of the drain in one of them. So, I pulled into the other and then peeked over. It was a box of Remington bullets. On the drain in an empty stall. Okay, weird.

Yet not as weird as the over-sized load in the bed of the pickup truck today. First, I thought it strange that a pickup truck would have a load in the car wash. I "dropped" a couple of quarters, and then had to drop a couple of more because the first ones didn't roll far enough.

The owner of the truck was just finishing spraying down his hot tub. It was too big to fit flat in the bed, so it was propped up over one of the sides of the truck.

I've always drooled over owning a hot tub, but I always assumed that cleaning it wouldn't involve manhandling it into your truck and driving to the car wash. Also, I figured that the electronic controls are waterproofed to some degree, but to a high pressure sprayer on the exterior paneling?

What kind of party did that man have where it became necessary to load up his hot tub and take it to the car wash? On second thought, I'm sure that knowledge would disturb me.