The Car Wash Life

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Not the Only One

I was not the only employee to celebrate a birthday last week. On June 14th, the same day as my birthday, Location B employee Harry James turned eighty years old. Harry has become the first eighty year old who Dad has employed. In fact, a decade earlier Harry became the first seventy year old that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Break In

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, someone broke into the convenience store portion at Location D. Through talking with Dad and Mom I have a firm grip of the sequence of events. In terms of the exacting timing of everything I am not certain. Anyway, Mom received a phonecall from the alarm company... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 12, 2011

A Lot of Driving

I drive about five hundred miles per week, four hundred of those miles being work related. My commute to and from work is about fifty miles. At five days a week that amounts to two hundred fifty miles. The rest of the mileage comes in from driving to different car washes. Does driving that much... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Getting Smaller

Our chemicals come in either fifty-five gallon drums, thirty gallon drums or five gallon containers. At some point after their arrival the chemicals will either be hooked up to the appropriate hose or will be pumped over into a similar size container. As one can imagine the drums are difficult to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Things Did Not Go According to Plan

Last weekend Dad reserved a boating slip at an Annapolis, Maryland marina for the following Friday through Monday. The plan for that Friday was for Dad, former employee Steve Redder and I to take Dad's boat on a ride from his marina in Baltimore to Annapolis. After the lines were all tied up, dinner... Sign in to see full entry.

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