Day Cruise

It was getting dangerous.

My father had been urging me for weeks to wash my car. I had been reluctant, being quite lazy to actually go to the trouble. But when I drove my nineteen year old Volvo to work last Friday, I realized that I could see very little out that windshield when the light shone through.

It was getting extremely dangerous.

Thus, when I saw the $5.00 premium car wash sign at the Kaady’s off of T.V Highway, I was interested. I drove through earnestly. I had never driven through a car wash before. As the man motioned for me to drive up to the ramp, I relaxed a little bit. This was going to be a blast. I loved going through car washes, I had been through one many times with my father. I rolled up all the windows, put my car in neutral, and just leaned back.

I felt like I was going through a waterfall as streaming water splashed the car from all sides. Large industrial sized wipes cleaned up the windshield, allowing for me a view from the driver seat of the outside world for the first time in days.

I smiled; all was well.

The sounds of a car wash are the best part. One feels and hears dozens of different parts moving in unison while layers of dirt are swept clean off the top of their vehicle. The car continued to be moved along by the ramp—or was it the motions of the different tools in the car wash itself? I certainly had no idea.

Reverend Vernon McGee was on the radio. The man had been dead for years now, yet his messages still reached hundreds of thousands of people every year.

I noticed the car had stopped. This was the drying process where the water was finally dried.

As I waited for the green light that would allow me to drive away, I felt something drop on my head. I looked up to see what seemed like a bucket load of water come straight through the ceiling and drench my face. It continued.

I raised my jacket to protect the instrument panel and the car itself. I was in total shock as I saw the puddle of water forming on the floor of my car and my lap.

Only one thought came to my mind at this time.

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Darn! I forgot to secure the sun roof!

Posted by daycruz on 9.12.2005 at 6:45 AM | Permalink