The Car Wash Life

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Visiting Harry and Harold

A weeknight ritual occurs at Location A. Every night at 8 p.m. Harry James visits cashier Harold Walger for one hour when the place closes for the night. Harry works at Location B on Mondays and Tuesdays and rent a house owned by Dad behind Location A. When Harold was moved to working nights Harry... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A Thief

Sunday saw Dad change the locks to the two changers at Location C. The amount of bills we had differed significantly from the amount of quarters we were putting out.?We had an issue last week, and issue shortly after Dad on the DL with his hip replacement. Obviously a thief is at play. The thief... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Bobcat Chaos

A chemical delivery came a day earlier than expected on Tuesday at Location A. Early deliveries are just as bad as late deliveries, which in their case are bad because we are not always equipped to take the supplies and/or have a person able to operate our Bobcat to handle them. Luckily we had the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Rejected

On the bad news front the bank Dad agreed to refinance with rejected us. The president of the bank and Dad agreed to a deal. To have the deal go to the board was a formality, according to the president. Well the board voted, and there was a tie, which means that our loan was not approved. We only... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Keeping Josh

Dad and I were talking the other day. He told me that once Location A is rented out to the Oil Company in October that fulltime wise he will be keeping Steve Redder, Josh Gabber and myself. I was surprised to hear Josh's name mentioned given that the two had a heated argument about a month ago over... Sign in to see full entry.

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