Sunday was a gorgeous Easter afternoon here in southern California, and while most people want to get outside and lay in the sun, walk along the beach, go surfing (cough Dan), or just enjoy spring in the air with family, my fanatical instinct kicked in to give the GTI a bath and a wax.  Living in an apartment has many downfalls.  Idiot neighbors making obscene amounts of noise at 4am, being confined to a little box, paying tons of money for something you don’t own, but worse of all, no space to work on, clean, or enjoy your ride.  Naturally, I had to look for a DIY car wash (quarter wash to many) and having stumbled across one on Saturday after venturing to a new area of town, I knew just where to go.

One of the best parts about going to the quarter wash is that I can meticulously clean the car to my beyond fanatical standards.  Sure I could pay someone to wash my car for me (and it seems most Californian’s do seeing as how there’s only one quarter wash in my area) but that’s like paying someone else to drink all your beer and punch you in the face at the end of the night so you wake up the next morning with the same effect.  Nope, I want to wash my own car and no stupid cramped apartment or lack of quarter washes will stop me. Read the rest of this entry »