The Car Wash Life

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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Sold

On Tuesday the settlement went off as planned. Ben Graham officially purchased the Location Z property from Dad and the Location Z business from Dad's best friend and former manager, Josh Gabber. Dad originally leased the Location Z property from a landlord starting in October 1980 and as was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

#9: Roy Kent

Roy Kent had two stints working for Dad. Dad hired Roy in 1981 to work at Location Z, which at the time was Dad's only business. In 1988, Dad acquired Location A and had Roy work both businesses. About a year or so later Roy became Dad's manager at both places. In 1992, Roy was burned out and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 4, 2011

#10: Stan Leonard

Stan Leonard worked for Dad from September 2006 to April 2008. Both Dad and I knew Stan three years prior to his hiring. He was the manager at the transmission shop next door. When the Sunday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. shift at Location A had an opening Dad thought the enthusiastic Stan would be interested.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Wow

Driving to Location D on Friday I drove over the Mason-Dixon Line to see that a dusting of snow had fallen on the ground. I had thought that I was not going to be blogging about snow until November and was surprised at being mistaken. Never before can I recall us getting even a snow flurry in April.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Favorite Employees

A few months back I did a series of posts where I ranked the car washes in terms of how much I liked them. I am in the mood to rank again. During the month of April I plan on doing another series of ranking posts with the topic being my ten favorite employees of all-time. Both current and past... Sign in to see full entry.

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