clean car

[deird_lj]

Washing cars is much more exciting, now that there's a drought.


It used to be me, with two buckets and a hose, standing in the driveway for ages, and getting increasingly anxious to just finish, so I could go back inside.

Now, though, we're not allowed to do that anymore. All car washings have to happen in an official way, down at the petrol station.


Which means me, holding a SuperPowerful Hose of DOOM, and a huge brush with massive amounts of white foam pumping out at an amazingly fast rate, and water spraying everywhere at top speed, and me getting soaked to the skin and NOT CARING, because I hold the Hose of DOOM and can spray water really really fast while cackling evilly.

...okay. Not cackling evilly. Well, not much.


It's really fun!

Comments

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

[deird1]

*grins*

[jl-in-the-lane.livejournal.com]

*really wants to use a Hose Of Doom*

*really, really wants to use a Hose Of Doom*

[deird1]

You really should. :)

[riccadonna.livejournal.com]

Fun!!!!!
That could be the only way to convince me to wash my car...but then again I can always argue with myself that water is better employed in other ways, and it's still going to get dirty eventually, and who needs a clean car anyway?

[deird1]

Very fun!

I tend to leave my car dirty too. This is the first time I've washed it in over a year...

[naatz.livejournal.com]

........I thought you were told to save water!

Here nobody would let us even hold a hose while we wash the car. We do it with a bucket and a cloth. No hose included.

|Meduza|

[deird1]

Apparently it does save water doing it this way... somehow.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure but I think the water used at the stations is second-hand water (undrinkable) which is why it's better to do it there than at home.

[next_to_normal]

LOL, perhaps I am underestimating the size of those buckets of yours, but it would seem that a SuperPowerful Hose of DOOM would waste a lot more water than your two buckets. Unless the Hoses of DOOM are monitoring how much water you use and how often you wash your car...

It sure does sound fun, though.

[taiba.livejournal.com]

Yeah, doesn't make much sense, given that we can use a bucket to collect shower water that'd otherwise be wasted, and then use THAT to wash the car, rather than clean water (and lots more of it) at an actual car wash...

But I think it's because car wash businesses kicked up a stink about car-washing restrictions and the fact that it'd force them to close.

[deird1]

Well, it does cost money, so I guess it makes us less likely to stand there hosing for ages when we can see our money draining away...

Also, there's all this stuff with recyclable systems, and stuff, and I'm not sure how they do it, but there's all these posters up saying it's 60% less water than doing it yourself (and I believe posters, for lo, I am gullible).

[next_to_normal]

Well, if the posters say so, it must be true, lol.

Personally, I believe that if God wanted us to have clean cars, He'd make it rain. :)

[immer-am-lesen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought that one-bucket-washing was still okay?
Then again, I no longer live in suburbia, so don't care...we may have some sort of restrictions, but since we're on rainwater, we can thumb our noses at it all. :-)

PS- I used one of those carwashes once. Much terrified laughing while trying to control the hose and brush and not drown in foam, indeed.
I was so tempted to try the deodoriser though, but it would probably have resulted in an industrial strength hideously-cloying fragrance settling into the car for the next year...