Just T
Drama Llama
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Jun 26, 2014 1:20:09 GMT
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Post by Just T on Sept 2, 2023 12:55:17 GMT
He is causing thousands of tiny micro scratches to the finish every time he is using the dryer as it picks up dust and dirt in the air and hits his vehicle with them at high velocity. Might want to share this with him. Yes, I totally made this up but you can tell him you read it on the internet. LOL The other funny thing is that he has a fancy mustang, and I never see him wash that. LOL But it's always in the garage, and his truck sits in the driveway. Every once in a while, he does the same routine with his wife's car.
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Post by mikklynn on Sept 2, 2023 12:58:02 GMT
I'll validate your annoyance with the noise!
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Post by lisae on Sept 2, 2023 14:19:26 GMT
Is he avoiding his wife? . My next door neighbour washes his and his wife’s cars frequently (and sometimes her friends when they visit) and tells us it’s to get out of the house full of women - wife and twin DDs. When I was a baby, I cried so much, my dad built a split rail fence in the wintertime to get away from me. Serves him right that he had to maintain that fence the rest of his life!
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Post by justkat on Sept 2, 2023 18:19:17 GMT
My friend’s husband washes his truck several times a week. He doesn’t have OCD, he’s not avoiding his wife, he’s not weird. He’s just a normal guy who likes to keep his truck pristine. Yeah,this! We have black label service for our Navigators, it includes detailing once a season. In between we wash them roughly twice a week. We're not ocd or obsessed. We just like to keep our vehicles clean no different than keeping our home clean. (shrug)
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Post by mom on Sept 3, 2023 2:51:12 GMT
My friend’s husband washes his truck several times a week. He doesn’t have OCD, he’s not avoiding his wife, he’s not weird. He’s just a normal guy who likes to keep his truck pristine. Yeah,this! We have black label service for our Navigators, it includes detailing once a season. In between we wash them roughly twice a week. We're not ocd or obsessed. We just like to keep our vehicles clean no different than keeping our home clean. (shrug) Same. My car (and DHs for that matter) gets washed 2x a week as well as vacuumed out weekly. If I am riding in a dirty car, someone needs to check on me because that means I am probably depressed. For us, it's no different than keeping our house clean.
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Post by pepperwood on Sept 6, 2023 0:46:54 GMT
If he uses the truck for business, maybe he wants to make a good impression on his customers?
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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 6, 2023 4:35:30 GMT
Since the cost of a new truck can run upwards of $70-80K or more these days, it’s probably a good thing that he’s maintaining it so well.
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Post by busy on Sept 6, 2023 4:51:38 GMT
Count me as one who’s offended by wasting so much water. I bet he’s just washing all his shitty chemicals right down into waste water too.
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scrappert
Prolific Pea
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Location: Milwaukee, WI area
Jul 11, 2014 21:20:09 GMT
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Post by scrappert on Sept 6, 2023 17:49:06 GMT
I use a blower on my car....it's battery operated so not too loud. SO uses the gas power blower on his truck. But we don't do this 3 time a week! Maybe once a week for him and fewer for me, I go to the car wash. I could definitely see how that would really be annoying though!
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Post by workingclassdog on Sept 6, 2023 18:01:52 GMT
Reminds me of my neighbor (we call him Mr. Perfect Yard Guy).. he literally has the perfect yard. Not a blade of grass out of place.
He burns his yard every year.. which is a farm thing to do, but in the middle of the neighborhood? Okay, whatever. He's out there with his blow torch and bit by bit burning his grass (in the spring). He mows when it is dark out (how do I know?). I am sitting in my family room chair that faces my glass door and I can see his miner hat with a light on going up and down his yard.. LOL..
He also is Mr. Perfect Get Rid of the Snow Guy. In the winter he is a perfect shoveler. Even his mounds of snow is perfect. Then he shovels the street all around his driveway. Hey, I have to drive by his house so I appreciate it.. haha..
Can't complain.. I wish he would do my grass and driveway!
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iluvpink
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Location: Michigan
Jul 13, 2014 12:40:31 GMT
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Post by iluvpink on Sept 6, 2023 18:16:54 GMT
Ok that sounds a bit like my husband. He does not wash by hand though. He takes our cars through the quick serve drive through car wash about a mile away. They have hand wash bays and one automatic. He takes his truck through more days than not and then hand dries it with some special cloths, and then goes over it again when he gets home. He does the same with my car once a week-ish (I only drive mine three days a week, sometimes less, occasionally more). He does the same with dd's car or make her go do it once every week or two.
For him it's part OCD and part that he's a car guy, grew up in a car obsessed, clean car obsessed family and just can't start a car not being spotless.
That said he doesn't use a loud thing to dry it and that would also make me crazy!
ETA He also waxes/polishes/does special cleaning of rims etc, checks for chips, repairs minor chips etc. It's a thing, but it's his thing and makes him happy. For years we drove crap cars (which he also kept clean) or average, now I have a really nice car and he has a really nice truck and he's happy to have them and take care of them.
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scrapngranny
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Jun 25, 2014 23:21:30 GMT
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Post by scrapngranny on Sept 6, 2023 18:54:16 GMT
I understand your fascination with his truck washing, it’s just plain weird. I don’t understand him, but it’s not unusual for me not to understand men.
My grandson a monthly pass at the car wash and often takes his truck in everyday. He does work out in really dusty areas and we live in an ag area. What I don’t get the inside of his trashed. It could be an episode of hoarders.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Sept 6, 2023 20:05:35 GMT
Is he avoiding his wife? He may just be obsessed with the truck or he could be using the job of cleaning it to keep his mind and his hands busy. That's what I always say about the men/women who always seem to be walking around the neighborhood. They aren't health conscious - they are avoiding being home. I vote that he hates Big Brother, and his wife is watching Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Or she is recording one of those and watching it another night. He just HAS to get outside while she is doing that.
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ComplicatedLady
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Jul 26, 2014 21:02:07 GMT
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Sept 7, 2023 4:17:13 GMT
Lol, I think I used to live next door to the brother of your neighbor! I’d ask you to ask if he’s from Phoenix except we sold our house to friends so I know for a fact the truck washer is still here in Phoenix! There were several trucks parked out front because the garage had two vintage cars that he was usually working on. His truck and his wife’s truck were in the driveway (both huge trucks that filled the driveway). His work truck was in the street in front of his house and his other truck that I think his son drove was often parked in front of our house. The only one that never moved was his driveway truck yet we’d see him washing it almost every day. Sometimes on the weekend she’d wash her truck but hers was gone for part of most days too, like she was going to work or something.
He also wouldn’t talk to us or make eye contact until we had our front yard landscaped. Once we tore stuff down and redid it with desert landscaping and flowers, he started waving to us and even came over to talk to dh. Literally within a day of it being done.
He was an interesting guy. Still is I suppose. I just don’t have to see him washing his one of many trucks all the time now. We did warn our friends about it but he’s a fairly quiet neighbor and doesn’t cause trouble. Just parks a lot of pickup trucks in front of his house and in the street.
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Post by Zee on Sept 7, 2023 12:09:03 GMT
Lol, I think I used to live next door to the brother of your neighbor! I’d ask you to ask if he’s from Phoenix except we sold our house to friends so I know for a fact the truck washer is still here in Phoenix! There were several trucks parked out front because the garage had two vintage cars that he was usually working on. His truck and his wife’s truck were in the driveway (both huge trucks that filled the driveway). His work truck was in the street in front of his house and his other truck that I think his son drove was often parked in front of our house. The only one that never moved was his driveway truck yet we’d see him washing it almost every day. Sometimes on the weekend she’d wash her truck but hers was gone for part of most days too, like she was going to work or something. He also wouldn’t talk to us or make eye contact until we had our front yard landscaped. Once we tore stuff down and redid it with desert landscaping and flowers, he started waving to us and even came over to talk to dh. Literally within a day of it being done. He was an interesting guy. Still is I suppose. I just don’t have to see him washing his one of many trucks all the time now. We did warn our friends about it but he’s a fairly quiet neighbor and doesn’t cause trouble. Just parks a lot of pickup trucks in front of his house and in the street. The thought of using water on a truck every day in the desert is so very wrong to me. I wouldn't even waste water doing that here where it sometimes rains daily, but especially not in a desert.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Sept 7, 2023 13:24:09 GMT
We have a “leaf blower” guy neighbor. It “was” a very large hand held unit and very noisy. Sometime during Covid and WFH, he purchased an industrial size backpack type like the professionals use.(Think Ghostbusters huge.) Very powerful, and very, very noisy.
Unfortunately, he has never RTO’d and I think he has come up with more new ways to use his leaf blower every season. Grass clippings after mowing. After trimming the trees and bushes. Cleaning out his pick up truck, cleaning out his mini Cooper, cleaning out the boat he stores in the garage along with the car he’s working on in the garage. When fall comes along, he blows leaves, when winter comes he blows the snow off of his driveway and sidewalk. I think he has come up with new ways to use that thing every single day. Even as powerful as it is, it takes him hours and hours do use. if it’s after dark, he wears a little headlight on his head so he can see what is blowing. That guy really needs to get a new hobby.
I case you think I am spying on him, it should be noted that I can see his house from my deck. It’s virtually impossible to enjoy sitting on my deck when he’s out there with that blower. Plus I have dogs that I let in and out throughout the day. If I don’t see him, I can hear him. Even with the TV set in the family room on. It’s ridiculous.
ETA - We lived in the D/FW area for 10 years. After living in the Midwest, we were so surprised to realize how little we needed to wash our cars. I had a black SUV and my DH had a dark green Durango that he drove 45 minutes to an hour one way to work. We washed our cars maybe twice a month if that. Both of them were kept in the garage, they just did not get dirty. Plus, the city we lived in frequently went on water restrictions and you could not wash your car or water your yard except on designated days. Watering the yard really meant watering your foundation to keep your foundation from cracking. We had a sprinkler system, and we would just put the timer on to fit the watering schedule. Yes, the grass turned brown and dry, but what do you expect? It was Texas.
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ComplicatedLady
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Location: Valley of the Sun
Jul 26, 2014 21:02:07 GMT
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Sept 8, 2023 18:25:20 GMT
Lol, I think I used to live next door to the brother of your neighbor! I’d ask you to ask if he’s from Phoenix except we sold our house to friends so I know for a fact the truck washer is still here in Phoenix! There were several trucks parked out front because the garage had two vintage cars that he was usually working on. His truck and his wife’s truck were in the driveway (both huge trucks that filled the driveway). His work truck was in the street in front of his house and his other truck that I think his son drove was often parked in front of our house. The only one that never moved was his driveway truck yet we’d see him washing it almost every day. Sometimes on the weekend she’d wash her truck but hers was gone for part of most days too, like she was going to work or something. He also wouldn’t talk to us or make eye contact until we had our front yard landscaped. Once we tore stuff down and redid it with desert landscaping and flowers, he started waving to us and even came over to talk to dh. Literally within a day of it being done. He was an interesting guy. Still is I suppose. I just don’t have to see him washing his one of many trucks all the time now. We did warn our friends about it but he’s a fairly quiet neighbor and doesn’t cause trouble. Just parks a lot of pickup trucks in front of his house and in the street. The thought of using water on a truck every day in the desert is so very wrong to me. I wouldn't even waste water doing that here where it sometimes rains daily, but especially not in a desert. Right? It was awful. We did desert landscaping in our yard so maybe that helped balance things?
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Post by bluebird71 on Sept 8, 2023 19:13:27 GMT
s-xuallll frustrationnnnnn... LOL
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Post by peasapie on Sept 8, 2023 19:46:56 GMT
It’s pretty hard not to start looking for him once you’ve noticed this, right? It sounds like some sort of compulsion, like maybe he’s only “safe” if he keeps it perfectly clean. I feel sorry for him.
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