The Car Wash Life

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Waiting Game

A few weeks back I brought up the possibility of Dad leasing another car wash. He sat down with potential landlord and current car wash operator Roy Foley and came to verbal agreements on rent, an option to buy and a clause enabling Dad to walk out after one year. What was then left to do would be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Better Organized

Location B has four automatic touch frees. Because the touch frees were installed at different times (over eight years) and not in order from left to right or right to left employees have always had trouble labeling them. Dad prefers to have them numbered by when they were put in, but most of our... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 5, 2010

He Was Furious

I was in the front of Location A filling up the air freshener machine on Thursday when in the bay immediately behind me I heard someone yell, "That is f------ bullshit!" The anger or the words alone were enough to make any head turn though I could not see what was going on. A guy, who had been... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 3, 2010

Working Easter

My regular readers are well aware that I work on holidays. Easter is no exception. Regular readers are also well aware that working on holidays does not bother me. I still like the money, like to help my father out and am glad that business is busy enough to warrant my being there. After Easter I do... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 1, 2010

They Came in Bunches

This morning was Angry Customer Day at Location C. I had a woman at one of the vacuum islands complain about there not being a trash can near her. She is right, but the snotty attitude did not exactly endear me to her. Other than just saying, "Okay," there was not much to do. Then there was another... Sign in to see full entry.

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