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Keeping a Car Clean in the Country Isn't a Piece of Cake!I noticed the other day that my car needed a bath. Now, living in the country, that means that one can no longer see out the front OR the back window, and the mud is not only on all the fenders and clogged underneath the wheelwells, but also inside on the floormats.
When I got my new Suburban, I ordered some special floor mats. They're called mud mats. In other words, you can get a whole army of kids in it that just took a tromp through the back forty in mucking boots, and all the mud stays contained in these awesome mats. In fact, I found out that you can spill a 32 oz. MegaSoda and it won't even touch the carpet. (I found that out by experience.) Yes, these mud mats are just what we country people need. However, the other day, I saw that the mud had indeed started getting into more places than the mud mats covered.
In the summertime, I would have commanded/bribed one of my kids to clean the car. I quit doing that when they learned they could extort a whopping 15 bucks out of me to clean the inside and out of my "oversized" car. I had to make it "worth their time and efforts", they complained. And getting out the vacuum cleaner and sudsing up my car with the super duper Mr. Clean Car Wash Gun wasn't worth the effort when they could get paid 6 bucks an hour to sit on their buns and watch TV babysitting the neighbor kids. And, windows were extra. I mean, they were risking their health breathing those fumes from the window cleaner. So I took my car to the car wash.
Now the car wash does a great job, if you don't mind them keeping the change for parking meters from the ash tray. I don't really need parking meter change anyway. I only go to the "city" once in a long while, and I don't usually go "downtown" where they extort a whole buck just to park 12 minutes. But I know the next time I do, there won't be any change in my purse OR in the ash tray. Oh well. I got my car cleaned. I even got the windows cleaned at no extra charge! And I got to watch a whole 15 minutes of cable TV soap operas with closed captions--free! It only cost me 11 bucks! That's it. I'm never hiring my kids to wash my car again! 10:05 AM - Jan. 26, 2006 - post comment
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