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One thing I've got to say about California. They still have manned car washes!I thought they were long gone. I thought that dealing with people who wipe your cars down were long gone and tipping them, conversing with them were long gone.
In WA, it was all automatic, drive through car washes where you do not get out of the car at all. You just sit in there and pretend you're tripping on some colorful hallucinogens then the scrubbers hitting the side of your car to scrub. Next comes the squeeze thing that removes most of the moisture and the blow air to dry the car and you go on your merry way. That is what I have gotten used to in WA. I expected it to be the same on CA, because they were starting that out here before I left 20 years ago. But no, I'm seeing many establishments where you have to get OUT of the car, let the workers drive your car into the car wash and you watch from the windows inside the little market inside where you can buy air fresheners, new wind wipers, chamois leather, turtle wax etc etc. and you pay for the car wash, the manual labor, go sit outside, find your car and wait for somebody to whip their towel in the air to signal the car was done. Despite having paid for the manual labor at the check out... you still have to hand the worker some tip as a thank you for doing the job.
Personally I prefer the self serve approach. It costs less, and you interact less with people. On the same token... you interact less with people so you miss out on interesting things. My scale weights heavier on less people. What say you?
picture above is of lady liberty in gold holding a sword downwards in
one hand, and a scale in her other hand which is held high with the two scales
Lady Liberty is blindfolded and she is wearing a greek era dress. Everything in
picture are gold or golden.
3 comments:
Most of our car washes are of the automated variety. And freak me out.
There is a new one in town (an expensive one) where real, honest to goodness people wash the cars. And vaccuum it. They do a much better job than the machine too.
Mostly I would happily opt for the third choice - a dirty car.
Sadly I think that Lady Liberty needs to use that sword. I don't believe those scales are even close to balancing at the moment. World wide.
I don't own a car, so it doesn't make much difference to me. Although, I'm still torn, because on the one hand I think it's nice when you still get the personal approach, while on the other hand I think riding in a car in a car wash is kind of fun...
My brother (also blind, so also not a car owner) likes riding in a car in a car wash too, so my Mam will often take her car to one of the automatic ones when we're visiting, so we can ride through the car wash with her.
I'm afraid I like going through the car wash and seeing the bubbles come down on the windshield. I do wish there was an automatic "clean the inside of the car" without it being me.
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