dboat called me last week to see if I would have time to detail his Mother-in-law's Astro van sometime this week. The only caveat was that it had to be by Thursday since she was leaving on Friday morning. Dana (dboat) thought it would be a nice way to thank her for house sitting while he and his wife were out of town. Anyway, we talked Sunday night and the soonest I would have a 5 hour block of time was today (Thursday, for the day impaired!) and on the local weather and the Weather Channel, the forecast was for sunshine and 60's.
Dana drops a check in the mail Monday morning and by Monday evening, the weather guessers were calling for rain by Thursday and I had no way to contact Dana other than his home phone. I figured I would just see how the weather played out. Today I was awakened by the sound of rain, so I callled Dana's house and talked to his Mother-in-law and asked her if she still wanted me to come out since she was going to have to drive her freshly detailed van home in the rain tomorrow (Friday). She said she wouldn't be back in town until March and it really needed to be cleaned and the rain had stopped out where she was. I could move it into the garage if needed.
I drove out to Dana's house and of course, when I got there it was raining. Dana has a Lightning that is a pretty wide truck and Astro Vans are pretty wide also, so it was a tight squeeze while working, but I got it washed, clayed, polished with Vanilla Moose and waxed with S100, vacuumed the interior, shampooed the carpets and mats, cleaned and dressed all the vinyl, etc. Got it looking real nice. It had never been waxed (it's a 1994), but it was obviously well taken care of and had only 55,000 miles on it. Dana's Mother-in-law was real pleased with the way it looked. Then she asked me if I would back it out before I left.
Whaaaaat......? I mentioned it was raining again and maybe by morning it would have let up. I could leave it in the garage so at least it would be clean for the next 14 hours or so. She said no, go ahead and back it out. She was worried about backing it up and maybe hitting Dana's Lightning, and anyway, it was finally waxed, which was her main concern.
A few minutes later, I was backing a freshly detailed van out into the rain.
The funny thing was though, you could still see the paint glisten amidst the water beads. Still, I really hated moving it into the rain so soon after detailing it.
Cliff Notes: I detailed a van today and when I finished, I had to move it out into the rain.
Sheesh, I make one spelling error a month and you caught it.
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