Minnesota Car Wash

When driving in Minnesota in the dead of winter, your car gets covered in salt, sand and all kinds of muck. So after going out to dinner tonight, we decided to get the car washed to get all the muck of of our Suburban.

We pull into a Holiday Station Store and being that we weren’t getting gas or anything else, we pulled around to the car wash. This particular car wash has doors on both ends and the door at the entrance opens when you pull up. You drive on to a track and put your car into neutral and the car wash pulls you through. It stops at the station where you either can put your code in if you paid inside the store or at the pump or you can insert money into a bill acceptor and pay right there.

Well we pull in and get to the station to pay and the bill acceptor is out of order, the door behind us has closed and we’re trapped in the car wash with no way to get out. We had to call the store on the phone, explain we were trapped in the car wash, and convince the clerk to give us a code with the promise of paying for the car wash when we got out. Once we pull out of the car wash and drive around to the front of the building, my wife goes into pay and the clerk was on the phone telling one of her friends about this couple from Georgia that got stuck in the car wash.


AJ