I thought I'd seen it all in this business...

[Rudy]

Ahem..... In almost 20 years in this business, I thought I'd either seen or heard it all. Not true.

I'd heard about hunters vacuuming up deer guts and blood.

I once saw a lady in a huge Olds 88 jump the rails and put her car diagonally in an automatic bay....front right and left rear fenders touching the walls.

Several times....a golden retriever locking an owner out of his car.

All benign issues in comparison to this....

My manager asks me, "Did you hear about the diahrea?"

"What are you talking about? Are you setting me up for a joke?"

"Nope, I'm serious. Yesterday, when we opened.... Bay #2 had diahrea all over the walls in the corner....along with a mess all over the floor. Jim is one of our best "openers"....and it was almost more than he could handle!"......

 

[2Biz]

Same thing happened in one of my bays last summer. I thought, maybe, it was some kind of animal by the looks of it. After watching the video, I was even more thouroughly disgusted.

A car was at a vac station. Two women were filling my gabage cans with garbage piled up in the car. They didn't use the vacs. Do you have a profile of this type in mind? They had a little girl, 4 maybe 5....She was outside the car holding herself trying to get their attention. They ignored her to the point where she went into a bay and went right in front of the coin box. By the looks of it, there were other things being neglected like her diet. And by her actions, it wasn't the first time she had to do this!

 

[Kevin James]

I caught a guy dumping his sewer holding tank on his motorhome at the car wash one night. He thought it was perfectly OK. I love it when they say “It’s OK it's a car wash”

 

[Rudy]

I've seen that one too....

 

[Jeff_L]

I haven't seen anyone #2 at one of my washes, yet. However, every now and then I see guys relieve themselves #1. I don't know what they're thinking, I've never had the thought to do that in a bay.

Dang - the least they could do would be to use one of the trees in the back of the lot.

 

[MEP001]

I've caught at least 50 people urinating at the wash in the last 8 1/2 years, most often stopping in a bay and standing inside their open car door. I don't know why they don't just go to the convenience store barely 100 feet away. Luckily I haven't found signs of anyone defecating.

 

[bigleo48]

I've caught at least 50 people urinating at the wash in the last 8 1/2 years, most often stopping in a bay and standing inside their open car door. I don't know why they don't just go to the convenience store barely 100 feet away. Luckily I haven't found signs of anyone defecating.

When I see one I tell them..."You know you're being recorded on our video system...right?"

 

[bigleo48]

I caught a guy dumping his sewer holding tank on his motorhome at the car wash one night. He thought it was perfectly OK. I love it when they say “It’s OK it's a car wash”

One guy tried that...caught him on video. Paid me a $500 cleaning fee.

 

[bigleo48]

Had a guy recently vacuum 2 to 3 quarts of used motor oil out the back seat area of his truck. Called the police as the oil leaked out the vac and all over the island (staining my cement top) and onto the parking lot. Caught it all on video from multiple angles plus his license plate. Called police as it is illegal dumping.

So the guy confesses to police, calls me to apologize and make financial amends. Then won't pay up!? So I'm taking him to small claims court. I called the guy and said "You know I have you doing this on video, you confessed to a police officer and myself and you still want to go to court over this"?! He says "yup"!? So we have a date later this month where he's about to get a serious tongue lashing from a judge who'll like be infuriated for wasting everybody's time. Should be interesting.

 

[Jeff_L]

Okay, you guys need to quit posting stuff I haven't seen yet. I kid you not, a few hours after posting that I had never seen anyone do #2 at my washes, I get a call. My attendant says "you won't believe this, but when I got here I found a pile of human feces in bay 6".

If this is the way it's going to work, why don't one of you post "i just found a million dollars in one of my bays, and the police say I can keep it!". I'll respond to that one right away, then go wait at the wash for it to happen!

 

[Rudy]

Funny.......

 

[bjo]

My wife and I were shopping at a local chain grocer several weeks ago and right there among the can goods was a good size turd right in the middle of the aisle. I don't even want to know how it got there.

 

[MudMoney]

I found a #2 pile in front of the coin box and then the scumbag put the t-paper thru the wringer thats my worst,used condoms once in a while too.

 

[Randy]

Since 1982 I’ve seen just about everything. People are basically just slobs. I’ve had people with diarrhea crap all over the back door, wipe with their “T” shirt and leave it. About 3 times a month I get someone who marks there territory by pi$$ing all over the back door. I’ve had people suck up vomit into the vacuums. Last week someone sucked up there used Kitty litter into the vacuum. I about puked when I found that, I had to toss the filter bags, couldn’t get the stink out.