Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Sing with me... At the car wash! Woo!

I felt sorry for my poor car covered in filth, so I took it to the nearby drive-through car wash. Now, this isn’t your average cheapy 30-second car wash at the gas station. This is a fully automated car wash that lasts almost 5 minutes, and leaves your car mostly dry at the end. Considering how much I enjoy watching rain, it’s no surprise that I love staring through my windows as the car goes through the wash. I’m going to give you a picture tour, but unfortunately I didn’t remember to start taking pictures until after I was inside. Also, these photos were taken with my MP3 player, which is only marginally better than my cell phone’s picture quality. Anyway, first an overview…


This is the view of the car wash from my cubicle, 13 stories up.


As soon as you put your car in neutral, you are propelled inside, squirted with soap and hit with multiple spinning soft-cloth brushes.


Then a rack of big chunks of spongy-looking cloth zig-zags across your car.


Then you go through rinse #1. Wouldn’t it be funny if there was a spin cycle? Whoawhoawhoawheeeee!


If you paid a little extra for it, you get some spray-on clear-coat polish stuff that makes the water slide off your car more easily. It’s neat because it’s multi-colored foam.


I like to open the sunroof cover (not the actual sunroof!) to see what’s going on up there. I tried to take a photo of it, but it came out looking like proof that the moon really is made of green cheese. Behold the awesome cheapness of this camera!


At the final rinse you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. You’re never all that far off from the car in front of you.


Finally you pass through The Wind Tunnel. There are about 15-20 giant industrial hair dryers up there, blowing air with enough force that you can hear it clearly from my floor inside the office building. It seriously sounds like freeway noise.

Wasn’t that fun? Don’t you want to go again??

Posted by Geeky Dragon Girl on 01/24 at 05:30 AM
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