Monday, July 16, 2018
Car Wash Dreamin'
Work takes up a fair amount of real estate in my mind. One would think I would dream a lot about it. Not so. I have only had a handful of work-related dreams. When I was a kid, I remember having a dream where a nameless irate customer hit me. I was around 10 when I had that dream. Around 17, I had a...
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Sunday, July 15, 2018
Bill Acceptors?
Self-service customers at Location B have two payment options for their usage: quarters and credit/debit cards. Dad is looking to add a third payment option: bill acceptors. Technology has enabled self-service car wash customers to pay with ones, fives, tens and twenties in the bay itself rather...
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Saturday, July 14, 2018
Pavement Pounding, Contract of Sale
This morning, I went door knocking for the political candidate who I'm volunteering for. Unlike Memorial Day weekend's, this one was more successful. I interacted with more people because people were not in a rush or away on account of a holiday. There is a contract of sale on Henry Barrett's car...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Self-Service Car Wash Club
About a year ago, Dad started a Self-Service Car Wash Club. For $20/month, a customer would receive $40 of time. Billing would be recurring. Unused time would accumulate. If a customer cancelled, all of the unused time would be forfeited when the final billing cycle concluded. Dad asked Ann and me...
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Monday, July 9, 2018
Possible D Sale?
Dad met today with a guy who owns a nearby crab restaurant to talk about the latter leasing Location D's former convenience store space. The guy is interested but would like to buy D and lease the car wash to Dad. Dad is interested in that now. Right now, they have a handshake study period going on...
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