Cah cayah

And I say that in my best Eddie Andelman voice.

After having a little run-in with a post in the parking lot at work a couple weeks back (the post is there to keep cars from hitting the fire hydrants, but it makes it easier for you to hit the post), I thought I'd make it up to the car this weekend and take it in for a little TLC. Saturday I finally pulled out a gift certificate that Mrs. Dave had given me for Christmas, and had the car detailed. If you've never had it done to your car, and you've owned your car for more than a year or two (or your car has existed for more than a year or two), it's probably a bit gritty on the floor, the upholstery is faded, there's gunk in your dashboard, radio, vents and console...your car's a mess but it's nothing you'd ever want to clean up yourself.

Well.

They had the thing for nigh on three hours, and even after I saw the bill for what it would have cost, I'd say it was worth it. It's a five-year-old car, but you couldn't tell after they were done with it - the steering wheel gleamed, there was a luster all across the dashboard, the vents were clean, the radio was degunkified. They even cleared the leaves out of the space between the trunk opening and the bottom of the rear window, and even went so far as to lift up the head rests and dust underneath them. Oh, and of course they waxed and buffed the whole thing, to the point where it almost hurt my eyes to look at it when the sun was out. I officially now own a Sexy Car. It's gawjus.

So now that it had gotten the Bryl Cream treatment on the outside, it was time to give it the oil treatment on the inside. I took it in Sunday for an oil change and fuel system treatment; it drank that stuff right up. I guess once you get your car all duded up, it'll drink whatever you give it.

And after all of this spiffing up of the car was done, and I had it all gleamy on the outside, I took it home, parked it in the driveway, where our tree promptly sneezed pollen all over the thing, dropped a few leaves into the windshield gutter, and then we got three inches of rain that night. Whee.