The Car Wash Life

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Sunday, February 9, 2020

The Time to Cut Has Come

Slow business since October has necessitated making business cuts. Robbie is hit the hardest with them. Dad cut his hours back 30%, and the cut in hours thus corresponds in pay. Brad lost his Location D Sundays. Once spring comes, Dad will be cutting John Booth out of his vacuum cleaning. There's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 7, 2020

A Tense Dinner

Near the end of the Wednesday night dinner was tense. The tension started when the topic of the mechanical aspect of the car wash business came up. "Those automatic touch-frees are pieces of shit," Josh said. Then he directed himself to Dad when he said, "You put so much money into them." What... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

A Motorcycle Ride

On Monday, the temperate was around 60 degrees and sunny. To give Howard Booth a perk, Dad let Howard spend part of his workday riding his motorcycle. Howard has done a lot of hard work, so he deserves that perk. He made the most of the most of the weather, enjoying a hobby that is rare to enjoy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 3, 2020

The Gift Route

Dad and I talked about the 1-800-GotJunk squad that wants cards to use at the self-service bays at Location C. We both agreed that the gift card route would be better off to go to instead of the fleet program because the fleet program is way more expensive to set up. Here is to hoping that we have... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 2, 2020

I Saw Carl

I looked behind me while Kelcey was doing the business deposits at the Big Bank branch. "Hey," Carl pleasantly said. You never would have known that he had been fired. I knew he was mad. He never did return a call to get his final paycheck. We mailed it. He did cash it. I was not sure if I would get... Sign in to see full entry.

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