The Car Wash Life

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Monday, May 1, 2017

F-Word Contest

The favorite word of both Dad and Josh Gabber is the f-word. Those two use it a lot. If I was to accurately quote Dad in my blogs - I rarely quote Josh -, my blogs would be littered with "f---". Rather than to do that, I usually omit them because it would be tedious to type "f---" all the time. One... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 29, 2017

How He Came Across Them

Dad came across Location A in a newspaper advertisement in 1987. Remember the days when people would look at newspaper ads? Yeah, those days are more or less gone. The negotiation was a tough one. A had two owners. One owner was easy. The other was difficult. There was some stopping starting, and in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Credit Card Excitement...Again

Location C had another credit card processing problem. We have Car Wash Club members whose billing date is the 22nd. This time around, their payments were processed, and their memberships deactivated. This problem had nothing to do with the self-service bay credit card system. Those two are separate... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Battle of the Techies?

Location B had a problem yesterday where a couple of its automatic touch-frees' RFID scanners were not working. Dad brought Brad in to fix the problem. After the problem was fixed, Dad talked to Dad and me for a bit. "Bradford Chemical Solutions might lose their Royal Farms account," he said. "They... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 24, 2017

Thank You All

I would like to thank you all for your support with regard to the depression that I am currently battling. When I returned, I thought about either ignoring that I had been away or lying and saying that I had a virus. I am glad I did not take either of those paths. Your support is a part of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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