The Car Wash Life

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

One Less Business

Come January 1st Dad will hand the keys to Location Y back to landlord and great friend Marty Goldberg. Two years it will have been since Dad began his lease with Marty. The first year we lost money. Because of us losing money Marty was willing for the year of 2009 to knock one third off the rent.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Working Christmas?

A very real possibility exists of yours truly having to work Christmas day from 10 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon. Because our washes are automated with self-service bays and automatic touch free washes Christmas is the only day of the year Dad does not have anyone working our businesses. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 21, 2009

Day Off From Work

To answer, Tzippy's question in the comments section to last entry I ended up taking a day off from work on Saturday on account of the blizzard. Shortly after Saturday's entry Dad, who had been plowing Location B since around 7 a.m., called Mom and had her relay to me that he would pick me up... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 19, 2009

A Whole Lot of Snow!

As I compose this entry I am looking outside of my room to look at the thick, white blanket of snow that is covering the ground. We have been receiving snow since around midnight today with no end expected to come until Sunday morning and 21 inches later. We have not had a snow like this in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Dumpster Doldrums

Last week I wrote how we have been having problems with Coca-Cola's vending. Now this week I write about how we are having problems with the super large Trash Company, which handles trash pickup at two of our businesses. They no showed over the weekend, leaving us with full dumpsters at those two... Sign in to see full entry.

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