I had to fill up my car and thought I'd splurge on a cheap car wash. specifically drove here (even though the gas was almost 40 cents per gallon more than the bon fare up the road because I knew they had the car wash. As I'm filling up my car I see the sign, "free car wash with 8 gallon fill up" sweet, saves me a few bucks. I figured I would get the 9 dollar car wash because the I'm already committed to the extra 40 cents a gallon, right?
So the pump asks if i want a car wash and I hit, "yes" then select the 9 dollar one. I know I'll have to pay the 4 dollar difference, but I figure it will take it off at the end. nope. I get the receipt and it charges me the whole 8 bucks (9 minus 1 dollar discount). So I squint and read the "free car wash" sign again and see in the small print it says to see the cashier for upgrade. Okay, that was my bad, I should have read the fine print.
So I go inside and tell the lady working the register what happened, and you would swear I was asking her to give up her first born child. She made a big deal about how I should have known the appropriate procedure and how I had to put my name and phone number in their hand written notebook (is this the notebook for problem customers? have I just been tagged? I don't know).
I told her I just wanted the upgraded wash and I figured it would take the discount at the end. She again looks at me like I'm an idiot and says no I did it wrong (which is painfully obvious to me at this point. however the wrong I did was coming to this gas station). So she asks if I really want a refund of if I can just use that in the next 2 weeks and she'll give me a free one today. I said no, I won't be getting another carwash here in the next two weeks. So she gives me the free one, the basic wash although I wanted the upgraded one. I wasn't going to argue though. I figure by this point it was my fault for being cheap, I should have just taken my 8 dollar car wash and gotten on with my day.
I go thru the car wash and 30 seconds later am out on the other end. I get out of my car and look. huh. bugs still all over my car. bird poop still on my hood. bottom half of my car still with road dirt. the rest of my car went from looking uniform slightly dirty to having dirt stripes over the whole thing. and no air dry either. I think my car actually looks dirtier than before the wash.
What did I learn?
1-If you're gonna get a car wash, don't go to a gas station where you pay 40 cents more per gallon, because you're better off using that money to pay for an actual car wash
2-never get the "express wash"
3-nevermind my degree as a physician, apparently I am and idiot who should have known the rules of the car wash before approaching the gas station cashier
4-Don't go to this gas station again read more