Baby, you can wash my car

[vovat]

I saw Jim Croce performing "Workin' At The Car Wash Blues" on TV Saturday night, and it got me wondering why car washes are so prevalent in music. I mean, there's that song "Car Wash," and Elvis quit his job down at the car wash, in a line later referenced by They Might Be Giants. Is the car wash the employment of choice for wannabe musicians?

It turned out that the weather report for Sunday was correct, so I was able to go to Great Adventure with bethje and her cousins Marji and Alyssa. It was fun, and the park wasn't that crowded, which is always good. Rolling Thunder got stuck on the first hill while we there, but fortunately not with us on it. We ended up not riding that ride at all. That makes the second time I've been at an amusement park when a roller coaster got stuck. I wonder how frequently that happens, and why.

I'm pretty sure the website said the park was supposed to close at 9, but it actually closed at 8, which strikes me as a really early time to close an amusement park under any circumstances. They were also out of fried Oreos.

Speaking of deep-fried foods, I wouldn't mind trying deep-fried Twinkies.

Comments

[titletownie.livejournal.com]

The thing about car washes is...

They aren't even that great.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Do you wash your car by hand, then?

[titletownie.livejournal.com]

Last time I washed my car, I got out the hose and a bucket and a sponge and the Turtle Wax and used all of these products on my car, in my drive way.

It's more fun. To write a song about that, though, would be truly lame.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

But when you wash your car yourself, you might be depriving some poor musician of the money he needs to buy a new guitar!

[3x1minus1.livejournal.com]

i had a deep fried twinkie at this newish restaurant here.. it was weird, because they are obviously trying to be a more upper class joint than they actually are (i didn't even know what it was going to be like, i just knew it was a brewery/restaurant); i mean who actually WANTS *salad with chopped duck??* ::vomit:: so they totally ruined the twinkie by pouring this gross bitter berry sauce on it. it was awful, but i ate it anyway. {g} but the twinkie itself wasn't horible... except it was so melted in the middle. i imagine they just screwed it up.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

If they were REALLY trying to be upper class, they probably shouldn't have had a deep fryer at all. {g}

I don't think salad with chopped duck sounds that bad, but then, I can't recall if I've ever actually tried duck.