A Public Ass.

We took the boys to the fair Tuesday night...and you all know what happens when you take little people to the fair: your car ends up with an abundance of crap in it. 

We took the boys to Dairy Queen for lunch the next day, and I realized whilst sitting in the line in the drive thru that my back seat needed to be cleaned out something awful and that the boys were gonna do good to eat back there in the shape it was in. No big deal, I thought...car wash is right over yonda. 

So we get our (effed up) order, and we drive over yonda to the car wash. I commence to gathering up the gatorade bottles and such from the night before, and tossing them into the blue trash can...going on about my business at that car wash just the same as I have my whole ENTIRE life. 

And by ENTIRE life, I mean since I can remember, I've always used that little run down, crap-tastic car wash for all my car cleaning needs. I've lost more quarters there than I care to discuss, and I've even sucked up objects that were very dear to me in the overpriced vacuums. Once, when I was a kid, I washed my bike there and managed to blow a chunk of flesh off my hand with the high-powered ass water nozzle. We've got history. 

So, you can imagine how surprised I was, as I tossed a small box into the can and heard:  "If you're not planning on vacuuming, I'm not accepting your trash lady! This place ain't a public dump!" No, no sir...it's really not - but you just made yourself a Public Ass. 

I stood there for a second, trying to gather my thoughts on how this man had just been rude to me for putting TRASH in the TRASH CANS out of my CAR at the CAR WASH...and I just couldn't think of anything more smart ass or appropriate to do than to walk my ass over to the trash can, gather up what I had thrown in it, throw it all back in my car and drive the hell off. So that's exactly what I did. 

Now, I've always been a fan of the mom and pop stores & locally ran businesses...I believe in supporting the little man. But I guarantee you that I will NEVER support this little man again. I understand that his whole deal with the car wash is to make a profit, but I also know that his trash bill would've been the same, with or without my trash. 

Word of mouth is best advertising method and it's also free, so you'd think being nice what few patrons he does have would be a skill he would've mastered at this point...maybe, just maybe! if he wasn't such an old fartknock, he wouldn't be so damn hard up for them quarters that he has to stand up there on a Wednesday and fuck with people over their trash...just saaaaayin'! 

But you can bet your ass I'll be spending my quarters elsewhere from now on. One man's trash is another man's treasure...if he don't appreciate my trash, that's fine...that's fuckin' fine. LaGrange Auto Bath will. :)