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- From: jjh4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JANE HORVATH)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: my trip to the carwash
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.184224.65193@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:42:24 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- after having it for three months, and not cleaning it even once, i
- finally decided to take my car to the car wash. i suppose all those 'wash
- me's smeared into the grime by children was what finally drove me to it.
- or, possibly the cakes of mud around the tires just grew to large for me to
- ignore them anymore. either way, i went.
- i drove ten miles to the cheapest car wash i could find. and i did find it,
- eventually. so, i paid the attendant the $4.50 and went through the machine.
- a few seconds and several gallons of water later, my car came out all shiny
- and clean.
- next, came the inside. candy bar wrappers, dead insects, and the mound of
- cigarette butts and chewing gum that had accumulated in my ashtray were all
- disposed of. i used the big vacuum at the carwash to get all the crumbs and
- inidentifiable refuse off my carpets.
- pretty soon, i was finished. clean on the outside, clean on the inside.
- with a sense of victory and extreme exhaustion, i returned the vacuum hose to
- its place.
- as i walked back to my car, i felt something mushy beneath my feet, but
- took little notice of it. i was too busy being happy about my nice clean car.
- i took notice of what i had stepped in soon enough, though, because
- immediately after exiting the carwash, i noticed a pungent odor eminating from
- somewhere within the car. the odor was unmistakeably vomit, and when i looked
- down on the floor, i realized where the smell was coming from.
- by this time, the vomit had soaked the floormats and was inescapable.
- of course, i had to go to the cheapest car wash, which was the farthest from
- my home. after twenty minutes of agony and several waves of nausea, i finally
- arrived at home.
- the car sat for hours airing out. after that, i vowed never to have my car
- washed again, no matter how filty it gets. knowing my luck, i would probably
- step in something even worse.
-
- -jane
-
- anybody want a slightly used floor mat?
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