Post Race!

Your experience sounds more like an "auto detailing" operation to me. I was just talking about $5 to $10 car wash & wax. They also have self-serve coin-op vacuum cleaning, but nothing where they do your nails and fluff your bottom while they clean inside your car. I'm not saying those aren't around here somewhere too, I just haven't been there.

We got a new food truck licensed to open daily in a vacant storefront parking lot. Some sort of chicken and pizza from the flyer stuck in my door.

That makes two now. I assume that is coming from the razing of our little business district to put up blocks of retirement cells, er, apartments. Zoning policy seems to have gone mad.

My experience WAS a detailing one, but the same place does the wash and wax option that you described, as well. That particular place has an inside lobby where you can watch your car go through the process. They offer fuller service than that. In fact, they had a range of options, and I just chose the wrong one. They sure did a good job, though, so I got my money's worth.

That almost sounds like something that could be combined with an adjacent shopping experience. Maybe something like the dollar store variants that sells items closer to $5. Throw in a light dining option like a burrito bar and coffee shop and you have everything that EV owners are claiming public charging centers will be offering.

The public charging thing seems to be getting weird. Some of them are having problems with people leaving cars beyond an 80% charge or even 100% charge, though few are charging a penalty for tying up a slot yet. Almost makes me think there is room to add valet charging to the wash-o-rama mini-malls I described. Shop and consume and lounge until they text you, etc.

That makes sense. If they aren't charging a fee for leaving your car at the charging station, they've essentially created free parking with a benefit.

The place where I got the detailing has a Mongolian BBQ attached to it, so getting a meal while you wait is certainly an option.

I was almost in a minor air traffic accident on Monday. A plane went off the runway in Boise. Nobody was hurt, and the thing is a bit of a mystery, since the temperatures were above freezing and the ground was dry, but it happened. I was going to be on that plane, except that I got an earlier flight.

On the one hand, I would have had a good story. On the other hand, I probably wouldn't have gotten home until 2 or 3 in the morning.

Glad I missed that.

The post race was sinking too far down the page, I had to bring it back up without talking about unicorn farts.

Oops.

Predictive hyping?

Fake news

I was sure I had something clever and pithy to say, but I guess I dreamed that. I remember being able to fly too, so maybe it was all the same dream.

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I was sure I had something clever and pithy to say, but I guess I dreamed that. I remember being able to fly too, so maybe it was all the same dream.

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Lol - thank you for that!

My level of I-don't-give-a-s#at is so high right now! Attached pic something I find funny and post online - probably making my friends and relatives think I'm nuts. Who cares...

Is this funny to anyone else? Or am I crossing some line here? I've got way worse...

Who is that? If knowing who it is is part of the joke, I guess I'd have to know who it is, and I don't.

I had a dream that I got bitten by a carnivorous deer. That was strange.

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Who is that? If knowing who it is is part of the joke, I guess I'd have to know who it is, and I don't.

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That's Greta Thunberg. She is a tool of the elite used to promote environmentalist propaganda.

So are you, though not environmentalist propaganda, just another kind.

When I was in grad school, most of the graduate students were in some form of toxicology. I was going to be studying heavy metals, till I switched to just plain fish. As it turned out, most of the grad students were looking at PAHs, in one way or another. PAH stands for Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons. This is a class of organic compounds characterized by multiple benzene rings. They're created in a variety of fashions, including through the flame grilling of animal proteins. They're also carcinogenic.

We didn't grill a lot of meat.

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That's Greta Thunberg. She is a tool of the elite used to promote environmentalist propaganda.

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I heard she used a toaster once.

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That's Greta Thunberg. She is a tool of the elite used to promote environmentalist propaganda.

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Supposedly, according to Greta Thunberg, rain is created by cow farts, and gas stoves are the devil. :bigyello:

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

When I was in grad school, most of the graduate students were in some form of toxicology. I was going to be studying heavy metals, till I switched to just plain fish. As it turned out, most of the grad students were looking at PAHs, in one way or another. PAH stands for Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons. This is a class of organic compounds characterized by multiple benzene rings. They're created in a variety of fashions, including through the flame grilling of animal proteins. They're also carcinogenic.

We didn't grill a lot of meat.

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The burger Nazi says, "NO Whopper For You"

I could have lived out the rest my life happily with ever knowing that. Well, I will anyway. lol