Monday, July 11, 2005

Car Wash

Yesterday my to my dismay I was told to wash my mom's car. I grumbled the whole time til I got started. After that the laughing did not stop. See I don't know if any of you have had the oppurtunity to wash cars with a 5 yr old.

I got the first car all soapy while my niece found shoes to wear to help me. Her first pick were pink snow boots that light up when you walk. I could not look at her I was laughing so hard. My mom was equally amused. Oh yeah have I mentioned yet that my mom just pulled up a chair and watched me wash the cars, no help on her part. Eventually my niece found an acceptable part of shoes and processed to play with the hose. I was smart enough to no turn the water on til I was ready but after that all bets were off. She sprayed me, the other cars, herself in the face a few times and the ground, little got on the car we were working on. Then she would run a streak of bubbles down the side of the car, line a racing stripe. She would then need the hose to wash off her hands and the soap from the car.

After about 20 minutes we finished the first car and my niece was completely soaked and I was just beyond the verge of half soaked. We then proceeded to wash my car since all the shit was out to a do car washin. Yeah my car needed it. It was the first time I think I have washed it since I got it in September.

This went a little fast seeing as how it is a smaller vehicle. This also lead to the completion of my transformation into hurricane victim. Somehow my niece managed to get in the dirt everytime she just got finished cleaning her feet off. At this point she decied to start singing "Workin at the Car Wash...". Again laughter ensured.

As we were working my mom made the comment that the job I had done on her car was not a very good one. There are reasons for this. 1)I did not want to wash your stupid car. 2)My plan was to do a shitty job so that in the future you do not ask me to do it again. and 3)Somehow everything I do is not good enough for my mom, no matter how hard I try it could be done better in her opinion. I think I have a complex because of how long she has been like that.

This caused her to get out of her chair and fix it herself. I replied with that is that way I wash cars so that is what she gets.

So when it was all over both me and my niece were soaking wet. My mom told me that someday I would make a good dad since I did not loose my temper with Kaylen. She told me sister a few hours later that I had the heart of a saint. Nice words about me and my working along side Kaylen, but nothing about the actual washing of cars.

4 Comments:

Blogger Mo said...

HAHAHAHHAHA!!!
Next time she wants you to wash the car, you can just start throwing handsfull of mud at it.

Cause that's the way you wash cars.

9:26 PM  
Blogger K-Dawg said...

you should see the way i mow the lawn. like a small child with a crayon. yet they keep asking me to do it. i would think they would get the point but they don't.

10:34 PM  
Blogger Mo said...

Hey, at this rate, you could do the dishes, vacuum, dust all the electronics...and generally take the house apart piece by piece.
:-)

10:54 PM  
Blogger K-Dawg said...

i put evident distain into everything they ask me to do. like when i am told to vaccuum, I just run the vaccuum in such a manner as to shift the carpet against the grain in order to made it look clean and like i actually did something.

12:06 AM  

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