It's Not Called Washing The Car Anymore - Now It's Called Detailing

We are under water restriction here in St. John's because one of our reservoirs is low - no driveway car washes allowed. So I took my missus's car to the commercial car wash, which is allowed. Then I spent the rest of the afternoon waxing and detailing. For a ten year old Saturn it looks, well, cleaner and, well, sort of newish.

And then when I came inside and fell into my chair with my laptop and a cold beer ( a local Quidi Vidi Honey Brown) I laughed because Glenn Reynolds did the same thing today. Only difference was I was not avoiding other work - as he was. At least he admitted it.

It's actually quite a full body workout, washing, waxing and vacuuming a car. When I was a kid I kept my Dad's Pontiac and Buick hardtops spit-shined for allowance money and the knowledge that I could always ask to borrow his bee-yoo-tiful car just about anytime and he would say yes because his car was always spotless and gleaming. I place that up there with learning to play the guitar as one of the smarter things I did when I was dating.