Remarks from neighbors

everybody always tells me that im gonna wash the paint off my car.now that my clear is bubbling on my bumper and a little on my sideskirts im starting to belive them :doh
 
my Evo mostly stays in the garage, as I have a daily driver I take to work. my neighbor asked me the other day "are you washing all that dust off that your car got on it from sitting in the garage?"



I admitted to being anal, but my car gets washed every weekend no matter what! Now if I can only stop waxing it every weekend :nixweiss
 
Nowadays, I have neighbors ask what I use more than anything else. That is something I don't mind as much as the "comments". :chuckle:



BTW, I do have some more smart aleck responses just in case.
 
Bah I got this one older lady next door to me and she asked me to wash her SUV for $5 when it was around 10deg F outside. I said are you out of your mind old lady? My fingers are falling off here and you want me to wash it for $5. Give me a break. I would probably do it for $5 if it was nice and warm and if I already had my stuff outside.
 
It's the same issue when I walk my dog (Moses: Parti colored (b&w) American cocker spaniel. A good dog.) the neighbors yell out the window, "Hey! Who is walking who?" I just smile and say, "I hear that a lot!" Wave, and everyone goes about their business. It's no big deal, really. Whaddya going to do? Piss off the neighbors for no good reason? There are bigger battles in life. Fight them. (Wish they made a Zaino for Moze.)
 
2 things really cause my neighbors to give me the EYE:



1. Using the leafblower to dry my truck.

2. Taking off the wheels to clean the backside of the wheels/tires as well as the wheel wells.



People walk by me and just shake their heads (my wife included). They just don't understand!:nervous:
 
I just moved back in with my pops. Not sure how the neighbors here are now-a-days but 9 years ago there were definitely some a-holes around. And i'm not sure how uptight they are about water conservation. If i catch too much heat i guess i'll have to try that ONR stuff. As far as opinions or looks go, i stopped caring about those things a while ago. The fun part is watching my neighbor's car wash routines. Good thing i have a strong stomach.
 
I allways detail cars for friends and co-workers. I charge less than 1/2 of the detail shops in town. I was washing a car yesterday in the POURING rain. People were walking by all dressed up tight in rain jackets and I was out washing a car. I got some weird looks. I never have to pay for my detailing products as ther money I make from doing these cars pays for my products.
 
Haha! I've limited my detailing to weekends only. Simply because I have too much going on (gym, JiuJitsu, work, gf, pets, ect).



Every saturday morning I wake up bright an early and wash 2 of the 3 cars I maintain. My Gf's car, my sisters car, and mine. I always see this guy excersising, and everytime he passes by me, he's holding two 5lb chick dumbells and making some weird jerks and poses. Almost as if he's really getting something done. He wears a bright blue headband, wrist bands, a lifting belt ( really funny), dress socks and tennis shoes.



This weekend I was doing a ONR right along side the street (too many cars to move in order to park it closer to the hose). Well the 5lb excersise guy does his nromal ritual and walks by.



This time we exchanged some nice "goodmornings" and while he was walking away he says "Don't worry, I don't care what other people think either"...



I could not stop laughing at how true he was.
 
joyriiide1113 said:
He wears a bright blue headband, wrist bands, a lifting belt ( really funny), dress socks and tennis shoes.
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Much better than the guy that lives on the corner of my old gf's street. In the summer he would do all his lawn work and gardening in a thong speedo. He was 70+ years old!!
 
"Spray me."



That was the remark from one of my neighbors yesterday. I was washing my car and he was jogging by. It was hot. I was nice enough to take off the foam gun and put on a soaker nozzle before complying. He had to jog a couple of circles in the street while I changed the nozzle but I sprayed him good and he seemed happy.



Why it couldnt' have been a hawt chick?
 
Top comments by my neighbors:





"I'm bringing my car over next."

"I'm parking in the wrong driveway - I'm going to start parking over there".

"Does it (car) still feel like new?"

"Your cleaning that car again?"

"I thought attorneys hired other people to clean their car for them?"





When you keep your car to autopian standards you just have to have thick skin to these types of comments - they do get old quickly.
 
White95Max said:
Some of my neighbors also love to keep their cars clean, and even they laugh about me frequently washingdetailing my car sometimes.



Other neighbors tell me that I'm going to wash the paint off the car, or that washing it too much dulls the paint, or waxing too much dulls the paint...waxing wheels is a weird waste of time..
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I get that a lot too until I explain that I consider it to be a therapeutic and relaxing. I don't golf like I used to and I clean and wax my car to get some alone (zen) time. I now even have my kids help me. They clean the wheels and the interior. They want to graduate to the the paint, but all in time. Now some of my neighbors come over to get advise about their cars and I direct them to this site and to Odd Lots (for Turtle Wax Platinum products). It's nice to pass this addiction off to others.
 
I live in a cul de sac and get a lot of circle traffic. With all the different vehicles I've made beautiful while sitting in our driveway, our neighbors must think were either filthy rich or a chop shop. Its nice to have the best looking roses AND the nicest looking cars on the block.
 
drewski59 said:
Another popular one in Seattle was: "why are you washing your car? It's just gonna rain tomorrow."
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I always tell them "That's why I'm washing it today." It confuses the heck out of them.
 
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