As a part of my on-going quest to maintain an adequate supply of gasoline in the tank to operate the white VW Beetle with the black "The Who" sticker on the back bumper, I stopped at my favorite BP station. The girl who screamed at me about talking on my cell phone while pumping gas, apparently, in retrospect, because she couldn't do two things at once, was nowhere to be found, which was a good thing.
The temperature was about 8° F, closer to absolute zero than I was comfortable with. A black Porsche affair pulled up to the other set of pumps to my right. I thought that cars like that didn't stop at a regular gas station, but went to special stations where the cars remained untouched by human hands. I was wrong.
A guy uncoiled from the driver's side door, wearing a grey ski jacket with a collar that was wrapped around his neck, effectively preventing anyone from garroting him. He stuck the gas pump nozzle in a place I would not have figured on, then he grabbed the windshield washer sponge/squeegee to clean his windows.
I always thought that the sponge/squeegee thingy was for washing windows, but I guess I was wrong about that, too. Porsche-Man started washing his car with the sponge part of the sponge/squeegee thingy. He started washing the front of the car and moved back towards the windshield. He then started to wash the side of the car. He was working very hard at cleaning his black Porsche, trying to remove all of the road grime.
My tank was full; so, I went in to pay, not wanting to allow any more heat to escape from my bald pate.
It must be the cold weather that makes people act strange. Here's a car worth $93,000 the guy was washing with a sponge/squeegee thingy. He could have gotten a discount on the car wash behind the gas station with a fill-up, where no human hands would have touched his little thing of joy.
Posted by Bill at January 22, 2004 07:07 PMa porsche doesn't strike me as a wise choice for a winter vehicle.
Posted by: Kathy Howe at January 22, 2004 08:34 PMPeople.
Posted by: kathy at January 22, 2004 08:57 PMuh. Won't that ruin the paint?
Posted by: wlfldy at January 23, 2004 08:03 AMDid you hear the (true) one about the lottery winner who always dreamed of having a sports car? He couldn't get into it.
Posted by: Anji at January 23, 2004 08:17 AMThat's just too weird.
Posted by: Matt at January 23, 2004 09:17 AMThe $93,000 car gives hime the "right" to do any goofy, nonsensical thing he wants. Apparently, it's a license to do stupid.
Posted by: Philip at January 23, 2004 09:46 AM