To the SC who couldn't properly enter the car wash code this morning...

[pzychobitch]

Language Warning.


and to the SC who couldn't do it yesterday either (both different people)...

On behalf of all convenience store workers in which their sites also have a car wash element attached to it:

FUCK YOU! maybe you should stop and try and make sure you are pressing each and every button firmly and only once at a time. Five times fucking up a simple task of punching in six numbers? This is why I drink.

To the SC on Saturday that when I sold a car wash to another customer along with $45 USD in petrol, who tried to tell him not to "waste his fucking time, this piece of shit cant get anything to work", i hope you got in a car wreck the second you drove away from the site (funny thing is, that guy didn't come back in and complain either LOL).

But to today's Car Wash SC, i sincerely hope you fucked off to the gas station across the street. I told you after #2 of your 3rd failed attempt that if you couldnt get it to work, to "get the hell out of here and stop giving me shit over your inability to punch in six numbers correctly". Go ahead and complain to my manager tomorrow morning, he will *NOT* give a flying fuck, i promise you that.

[South Texan]

Go ahead and complain to my manager tomorrow morning, he will *NOT* give a flying fuck, i promise you that.

For your sake, I hope you are correct!

I "love" attempting to explain how to use a simple system to people who cannot comprehend the simplicity of putting their respective index fingers up to to a key pad, pushing the number keys of their six-digit code, THEN pushing the "*" key. I so often feel the urge to speak down to them as if they are pre-schoolers.

[PastryGal]

Oh my I can totally relate here as I used to work at a convenience store that had a car wash, and old one but it worked well. After a while I thought that going through our car wash should be the test for life as we had loads of people who couldn't line their tires up right, enter the code right, read any directions. Oh and when the dryer says DO NOT BRAKE, please for the love of god don't unless you want a new windshield.

[blas]

I hear you there, too.

Our car wash wasn't in close walking proximity either, and with only one person working at a time, there was simply nothing that could be done if the wash wasn't working. But, nine times out of ten, it was because of operator error on the card machine or not driving in correctly, not the wash.

[PepperElf]

maybe it's me but ... when i go up to those i read the instructions first. i can't remember ever fucking up the numbers, although i do open the door to get to the box. never could get the hang of just leaning out my window for it.

[fireheart]

And this is the reason why I use the independent carwashes that aren't attached to service stations (aka petrol stations). No stressing about the need for a code, just gotta roll up, stick the cash in, select my service and go nuts.

(the one nearest home though once decided to spaz out on me randomly....it was about to rinse off the wax but something must've tripped the sensor plate. I wound up reversing and pulling forward for about 5 minutes before the damn thing worked again)

[PepperElf]

there's only 2 things i don't like about them

1) Touchless washes. I personally feel the touchless washes don't clean as well as the regular ones. although i guess i'd have to take my "Support your Veteran" magnets off first with a touch-wash

2) The only touch wash I can remember never worked well in the winter. The under-carriage wash would always break

[Gaki]

I used to work for a gas station with a car wash (the one I found the underwear in) and people were so dumb about it. It was the kind where all you did was put in your money, press one of three buttons, and then voila. You would pull in until it told you to stop (your tire was on the press-down that would trigger the wash) and then put your car in park and wait for it to tell you to leave.

I can't tell you how many people would not put their car in park and then halfway through the wash would try to do it and the car would rock a little backward and the tire would come up off the trigger. They couldn't understand that their car would rock a bit backward and they should have put it in park to begin with so they knew it would stay where it was.

I've gotten screamed at so many times for this and as soon as I pointed out what they probably did they would become sheepish and slink away with a still-soapy car. Their cars literally looked like a DISASTER when they came out. All it would have taken was for them to take it out of park and inch it up and it would have restarted. But no. Don't do what the machine tells you to do, no that would make wayyyyy too much sense. Rocket out and scream at the worker, that'll fix your problem.

[pzychobitch]

For your sake, I hope you are correct!

I "love" attempting to explain how to use a simple system to people who cannot comprehend the simplicity of putting their respective index fingers up to to a key pad, pushing the number keys of their six-digit code, THEN pushing the "*" key. I so often feel the urge to speak down to them as if they are pre-schoolers.

I am bloody well honest. He doesn't care. He's told me if anyone gives me any problems when he's not there to do whatever I can to get them out of the store. Fast.

[pzychobitch]

I hear you there, too.

Our car wash wasn't in close walking proximity either, and with only one person working at a time, there was simply nothing that could be done if the wash wasn't working. But, nine times out of ten, it was because of operator error on the card machine or not driving in correctly, not the wash.

EXACTLY!

I'm sure you've gotten a ton of shit from SC's who bitch about the card reader working. The one at the C store I am currently working at hasn't worked since before I got hired there (mid-September 2011).