Blacked
MENTAL NOTE: Never buy a black car again…AND I MEAN NEVER!!!!
Have you ever had the luxury to own a black car? No wait…I think its more like a curse! Yea sure black so cool, it never goes out of style and it literally sparkles in daylight and night as well. Try telling me that after driving my car for 3 months.
I collected my baby while she was blanketed by a nice layer of construction dust from the site opposite Kaki Bukit Carmart. Yea that’s service for you! Brand new cars are supposed to sparkle right? Mine looked like a really sick leopard. Anyway I sent it for washing something which I probably am gonna do for the rest of my ten-year loan, very very often.
Ok fast forward to the present, my car’s sitting downstairs looking like a tapir after a mudbath now. I’m mentally coaxing myself that “my car is not dirty, my car is not dirty my car is not dirty” and in fact its clean and sparkly, its clean and sparkly, its clean and sparkly”. Yes I do sound like a deluded schizo, but it’s a ritual I learnt all black car owners go through.
Spending $10 bucks a week for 2 car washes is killer, for the losers who think why shouldn’t I just DIY well…I did try it once. I stopped immediately when I self created a nice 15cm hairline scratch on my bonnet. That’s when I learnt better to leave it to the professionals, that $5 wash is way better than having heartache for 3 weeks.
Backbreaking as it might seem, I used to wax my car every 2 weeks, since I started my job the last time I waxed her was like hmmm….last month? Argh! Getting lazy now, while my car’s becoming a world bank for airborne particles. Its just amazing how black dirties so quickly. I mean the corolla beside me was registered in ’02 and his car looks like brand new why? Because it’s a freaking ah peh shade of champagne gold. While my car body looks like it just went through the Gulf War.
I thought of different ways to cut down on dirt, purposely going on longer routes just to avoid dusty construction infested areas, tailgating other cars on the highway to avoid pebbles so they hit the car infront and not me, wanting to buy a car cover to avoid bird poo and other misc. crap but scrapped that when I found out buying one would set me back $80 (WTF $80 for a piece of car-shaped cloth!) $80 could buy me a new cold-air intake system and still have some change.
In the end I just gave up, I get a free car wash when it rains, I park in a tree-less spot in a corner to avoid bird droppings and car-less (aka public transport siting morons) bastards who derive joy from imprinting their personalized scribblings on my beloved car, oh having a dirt covered ride is good too, it keeps your car cool – yes like a bloody pig wallowing in a mudhole and at the same time nobody would wanna touch your pride and joy lest they come in contact with viral infection. =)
Have you ever had the luxury to own a black car? No wait…I think its more like a curse! Yea sure black so cool, it never goes out of style and it literally sparkles in daylight and night as well. Try telling me that after driving my car for 3 months.
I collected my baby while she was blanketed by a nice layer of construction dust from the site opposite Kaki Bukit Carmart. Yea that’s service for you! Brand new cars are supposed to sparkle right? Mine looked like a really sick leopard. Anyway I sent it for washing something which I probably am gonna do for the rest of my ten-year loan, very very often.
Ok fast forward to the present, my car’s sitting downstairs looking like a tapir after a mudbath now. I’m mentally coaxing myself that “my car is not dirty, my car is not dirty my car is not dirty” and in fact its clean and sparkly, its clean and sparkly, its clean and sparkly”. Yes I do sound like a deluded schizo, but it’s a ritual I learnt all black car owners go through.
Spending $10 bucks a week for 2 car washes is killer, for the losers who think why shouldn’t I just DIY well…I did try it once. I stopped immediately when I self created a nice 15cm hairline scratch on my bonnet. That’s when I learnt better to leave it to the professionals, that $5 wash is way better than having heartache for 3 weeks.
Backbreaking as it might seem, I used to wax my car every 2 weeks, since I started my job the last time I waxed her was like hmmm….last month? Argh! Getting lazy now, while my car’s becoming a world bank for airborne particles. Its just amazing how black dirties so quickly. I mean the corolla beside me was registered in ’02 and his car looks like brand new why? Because it’s a freaking ah peh shade of champagne gold. While my car body looks like it just went through the Gulf War.
I thought of different ways to cut down on dirt, purposely going on longer routes just to avoid dusty construction infested areas, tailgating other cars on the highway to avoid pebbles so they hit the car infront and not me, wanting to buy a car cover to avoid bird poo and other misc. crap but scrapped that when I found out buying one would set me back $80 (WTF $80 for a piece of car-shaped cloth!) $80 could buy me a new cold-air intake system and still have some change.
In the end I just gave up, I get a free car wash when it rains, I park in a tree-less spot in a corner to avoid bird droppings and car-less (aka public transport siting morons) bastards who derive joy from imprinting their personalized scribblings on my beloved car, oh having a dirt covered ride is good too, it keeps your car cool – yes like a bloody pig wallowing in a mudhole and at the same time nobody would wanna touch your pride and joy lest they come in contact with viral infection. =)
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