I lived at an apartment complex that did not have outdoor water spigots. I washed my wife’s car in the rain many times. It was simple economics as I was saving $4 by not going to the quarter car wash. I was an E-3 in the Air Force and my wife was a second year school teacher. We qualified for food stamps. I volunteered for every temporary duty assignment I could as I could make more money deployed or at a specialty school. Life was tough in our early 20’s.
yeah, that old red white and broke. also too, anything off post was always a bit higher than what you got in BAQ. and it went up every time you got a pay raise funny how that worked. was a E-5with 3 kids and I was always broke back then. made extra money spinning a wrench on weekends at the craft shop working on Officers cars and the like. on a good weekend I bring back home a couple of hundred bucks. funny part it was the guys who ran the place that got me started doing jobs like that. it helped out a lot back then.
I fixed their car and they saved a about half of what the shops off post would charge them. it was a good deal.
it was weird how I got started doing that too. some officer has his Jag carpet redone and he was blowing fuses left and right
a wiring short. the shop guys asked me if I knew anything about them. I had a MGBGT at the time. so, got a ford flasher unit and solder on some leads and inductive amp meter and check the harness out. it was a screw that was too long that the carpet place used to hold in place one of the trim parts. I trimed the screw back or shorter and taped up the wires. went home. they called me back. the jag guy had dropped off 2 cases of beer for me and 40 bucks.
he told them the shop off post wanted 50 bucks a hour and 3 up front before even touching it..
and that is how I got started working part time under the table at the craft shop. word of mouth really does work too.
in about 3 months or so, I had almost steady work there.
FT. Leavenworth. was the home of CGSC or the command school- lots of officers every year and a lot of them had sports cars- steady work for a E-5 with kids.
did one job on a v12 jag. spent like 4-5 hours on tuning it up right. charged him 100 bucks. he thought it was a bit much until he drove it . he came back with a case of beer and told me it NEVER drove that well before. always had beer at home after that. couldn’t really afford it before.
so, having a beer now and then was a rare thing up till then.
Hey, it does save his usage of water. Use the rain, less of a water bill to pay later.
That’s Florida. Very common. Usually, in the summer, 1 would use a little water and soap and then let the rain wash it off. I guess they like doing the whole thing during the afternoon shower.
That some good crank right there.
The wandering dumpster is a nice touch!
At the boat yard we wash boats in the rain often but not in weather like that & only if the lightning monitor is quiet.
Yeah been there done that. Nothing wrong with it dude.
I lived at an apartment complex that did not have outdoor water spigots. I washed my wife’s car in the rain many times. It was simple economics as I was saving $4 by not going to the quarter car wash. I was an E-3 in the Air Force and my wife was a second year school teacher. We qualified for food stamps. I volunteered for every temporary duty assignment I could as I could make more money deployed or at a specialty school. Life was tough in our early 20’s.
yeah, that old red white and broke. also too, anything off post was always a bit higher than what you got in BAQ. and it went up every time you got a pay raise funny how that worked. was a E-5with 3 kids and I was always broke back then. made extra money spinning a wrench on weekends at the craft shop working on Officers cars and the like. on a good weekend I bring back home a couple of hundred bucks. funny part it was the guys who ran the place that got me started doing jobs like that. it helped out a lot back then.
I fixed their car and they saved a about half of what the shops off post would charge them. it was a good deal.
it was weird how I got started doing that too. some officer has his Jag carpet redone and he was blowing fuses left and right
a wiring short. the shop guys asked me if I knew anything about them. I had a MGBGT at the time. so, got a ford flasher unit and solder on some leads and inductive amp meter and check the harness out. it was a screw that was too long that the carpet place used to hold in place one of the trim parts. I trimed the screw back or shorter and taped up the wires. went home. they called me back. the jag guy had dropped off 2 cases of beer for me and 40 bucks.
he told them the shop off post wanted 50 bucks a hour and 3 up front before even touching it..
and that is how I got started working part time under the table at the craft shop. word of mouth really does work too.
in about 3 months or so, I had almost steady work there.
FT. Leavenworth. was the home of CGSC or the command school- lots of officers every year and a lot of them had sports cars- steady work for a E-5 with kids.
did one job on a v12 jag. spent like 4-5 hours on tuning it up right. charged him 100 bucks. he thought it was a bit much until he drove it . he came back with a case of beer and told me it NEVER drove that well before. always had beer at home after that. couldn’t really afford it before.
so, having a beer now and then was a rare thing up till then.
Hey, it does save his usage of water. Use the rain, less of a water bill to pay later.
That’s Florida. Very common. Usually, in the summer, 1 would use a little water and soap and then let the rain wash it off. I guess they like doing the whole thing during the afternoon shower.
That some good crank right there.
The wandering dumpster is a nice touch!
At the boat yard we wash boats in the rain often but not in weather like that & only if the lightning monitor is quiet.
Yeah been there done that. Nothing wrong with it dude.