The Car Wash Life

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Eviction

Yesterday I saw what is perhaps the ugliest event I have seen in my business career. I saw an eviction. Back in Summer 2006 forty-something Sandy and her father approached Dad about her renting one of the three rental houses Dad owns behind Location A. Sandy had separated from her husband, the end... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Waiting for the Right Moment

I have yet to ask manager Josh Gabber if he knows what became of my favorite customer, a person we both know. For more information on the matter you can click on the link provided under Recommended Reading. I have been around Josh over the course of the last three weeks here and there but have not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 22, 2010

The Tunnel Jinx

Stan Leonard became known as The Tunnel Jinx. By January 2008 Stan had been working at Location A for about a year and a half on Saturdays and Sundays when seemingly every time he worked the automatic tunnel on a halfway decent day we would have a mechanical breakdown. The problem cost us a lot of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

I'm Loving Life

Thus far March has been a great month. Business has been pretty solid. The first ten days we benefitted from road salt. Even though a rain killed the long lines the weather has held up well with seventy degree days and plenty of sunshine. We are still doing well. By far this will be our best month... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

We Don't Know How He Did It

Tuesday saw me meet with Howard Booth at Location B. One of the receipt mechanisms for one of the automatic touch frees had a paper jam. Two reasons explain why the job was a two man one. First of all, only Dad, Josh Gabber and I have keys. With Josh off and Dad at an appointment I was going to be... Sign in to see full entry.

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