Jiminy Cricket is teeny, tiny! I can soap him, scrub him and rinse him, for $3.00 at the car wash, in three minutes. I have it down to a FINE ART! That fine art went totally OUT THE WINDOW, on my last visit.
I am going to blame it partly on Vimy... well... some of the blame anyway. Mon pauvre Pitou!
I had $7 in change - three toonies and a loonie. I drove into one stall. It was a warm summer day, but not stifling. Vimy was crouched on the floor, on the passenger side, communicating "I am terrified but I have to put up with this to follow my mistress" with his position, posture and demeanor.
I didn't want to leave him in the car, like I do in the winter, because of the warmer weather. Well, as soon as I opened the door, he cowered right away. His fear? The loud noise coming from the stall next door, where a guy was spraying his car. I dragged a reluctant Vimy out anyway, and told him to go lay down close by. I turned to put $3.00 in coins in the machine. I had no sooner done that and picked up the sprayer, than Vimy took off! He ran out of the car wash. So of course, I had to run out after him. A mother and daughter pointed out that Vimy was running away. LIKE I COULDN'T SEE THAT? My cousin tells me later that she TOO saw me running after Vimy. This seems to be the story of my life lately. By the time I caught him, where he was hopelessly trying to enter Subway, and had brought him back to the car, I had less than two minutes left. Big decision here? What do I do? I HAD to put him back in the car, where he was ONLY TOO HAPPY to be. He would only have run away again anyway. In he went, and I soaped and scrubbed Jiminy Cricket as quickly as I could, in the less than two minutes I had, but time ran out BEFORE I could rinse the car.
Big decision. Do I add another $1.00, thinking another $1.00 would give me a minute of rinsing? No such luck. You HAVE to put in ANOTHER $3.00. Do I have a loonie? OF course not, so I have to put in $4.00. I think I will get change. How silly of me! OF COURSE NOT! So now I have spent $7. I have four minutes left, and a terrified dog in a HOT car. It took me longer than usual to rinse off JC, because I would open the door now and then to let Vimy get some air. I stopped after three minutes, thinking the machine would give me back a loonie, since I didn't use up ALL the minutes. Silly me! Of course not!!! Frugalistas are ever HOPEFUL people you know, when it comes to getting money back. :)
So what the heck... I put the button on WAX. It didn't look much different to me, but I used up that last minute, opening both doors on the passenger side, so Vimy could breathe. I am paranoid about my dog suffering in a hot car, even when he is with me. After all, I have only called the police twice, on others who have left their dog in a car, with the windows up. That would be SO TOTALLY BAD KARMA come back to bite me YOU KNOW WHERE, if someone called the police on me. WOULDN'T IT???
Jiminy and Vimy - the two males in my life! :)
Been there , done it Lovely Lady. worry not, only a car. Vimy is more important
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