Speakeasy forum: Age/experience trumps youth/enthusiasm....again...

that washing won't get, but you knew that.

shop rule for washing the car,you could wash it as many times as you like.

As a matter of common sense hygiene,I also jump into a shower as hot as I can stand as soon as I get home every day.I think that it opens your pores and washes out the junk that accumulates through the course of the day.No person in their right mind would want that carcinogeous crap on them for long.I've survived cancer once,I don't need a second bout with it by any means.

FWIW,"Hoss" is my affectionate knickname for my good friend Hassan,a young Iranian and non practicing Muslim.It's also a throw back to the old TV series,Bonanza!!

would prove to customers that parts charged for were actually replaced. They'd leave them on a seat and usually in a cardboard box or bag. They'd forget that oily stuff goes right through and into the upholstery.

And about that brake dust. I had my wife's Camry in for new tires at one of the NTB type places and, for some reason, the mechanic had gotten a lot of brake dust on the seat of his pants. He drove the car to the front for me to pick up but when he got out I could see the blackened fabric upholstery. He apologized and said he'd clean it up for us. He confessed to his manager what had happened as well. The manager went ballistic, grabbed some spray bottle of liquid cleaner and some shop rags and told me he'd clean it up. I had to tell that manager to get away from my car with that stuff. You'll know what he should have grabbed first but this guy had no clue and was about to grind the brake dust into the fabric. I took it home and cleaned it myself. At least the tires turned out to be good ones.