The countdown begins….tick….tick…tick…..tick….
My vacation officially starts at 4 pm this afternoon and I am SO ready for it to happen. I don’t have any real plans to speak of while I am off, but I do plan on working around the house and spending some time with my daughter. We also have some furniture out in the garage that we will be trying to sell and get rid of (I want my garage back!!) Once we get some of Stephen’s stuff moved out this evening, I am hoping to have more room in my garage…..and in my storage building in the backyard.
Yesterday was a day that I took a big chance. I would not normally do something like this, but for some strange reason, I did. I had stopped at a car wash at NW 16 & May yesterday to wash the Sossmobile. When I pulled in, all the bays were being used, so I pulled in behind an old beat up pick up. I sat there and watched as the driver and a friend of his were using rags to wipe down the truck. The truck still looked pretty dirty to me, but I guess they had already washed it and were doing some touch up drying on it. Normally, on a slow day at the car wash, I would have no problem with this and would just go to another wash bay to wash my truck….but……the longer I sat in my truck waiting, the more vehicles pulled in to get washed.
I was starting to get very irritated because the guy kept wiping down his truck, knowing that others (including myself) were waiting in line to wash our vehicles. Several times, he would stop wiping and just stand there and talk to his friend. He was basically being very rude and discourteous to the others by wiping down his truck in the wash bay, when he could be doing it outside the bay. There was plenty of room for him to pull out and move his truck, but he just continued to wipe his truck down. His friend finally started walking away, but this guy continued to take his time. I had finally had enough!
I turned on my CB radio and turned on my PA speaker that I have hooked up. I said. “excuse me sir”….he looked at me and pointed at himself and I said, “yes, I am talking to you. If you are through washing your truck, could you please move it out of the wash bay and wipe down your truck somewhere else? There are people out here waiting to use the wash bays and you are holding everybody up. Please move your truck out of the wash bay so that others can wash their vehicles.” He looked at me and halfway apologized to me and then got in his truck. He started his truck, passed me the peace sign (which I politely passed back to him) and he pulled out. There were quite a few people at the car wash by now, so many people heard what I said. I don’t know if the man had any other motives, but there were so many people around, I don’t think he wanted to start anything. The guy pulled out of the wash bay and pulled up to the area where the vacuums are. He continued to dry his truck off with his rag
I grabbed my City Inspector badge, clipped it on my jeans and started washing my truck. I kept one eye on him and one eye on my truck as I washed it. He never made eye contact with me as I washed my truck. I wasn’t there very long. When I finished, I pulled out and drove right past him. He looked at me and I looked at him and kind of nodded my head….and then I left. Normally, I would not have done what I did because there are way too many crazy people out there that would just shoot or stab you for doing what I did. He was a tall black guy and did look pretty harmless, but you never know. I was fortunate that he didn’t try anything. About an hour later, I was still shaking from it.
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