Tuesday, June 8, 2010

"Free Car Wash"

As a college student, I am very poor. Very poor. This might have something to do with the ratio of countries I have lived in to the hourly wage I get paid at work, but in any case I find every way possible to go without spending money. For as long as possible.

As mentioned before, I have a car, and like all cars my car gets dirty. Especially since I don't have covered parking. And for a long time (like a year) my windshield wiper fluid didn't work, which meant very dirty windows.

I found a solution for this dilemma, though. Each time I went to put gas in my car (which was about once a week, since I only put $5 in at a time) I would grab the window squeegees offered to patrons and wash my window. And then I would wash the rest of my car with the same squeegee. I don't know what other gas patrons (or the attendant!) were thinking as they saw this girl using the window cleaner to wash off her entire car, but I was thinking, "I just saved $5."