Car wash

For other uses, see Car wash (disambiguation).

A car wash (also written as "carwash") or auto wash is a facility used to clean the exterior and, in some cases, the interior of motor vehicles. Car washes can be self-serve, fully automated, or full-service with attendants who wash the vehicle.

Quotes

Quotes from film

I could really write my own ticket if I went back to Boulder now, couldn't I? Shovelling out driveways? Work in a car wash? Any of that appeal to you?
~ Jack Torrance
in The Shining (1980).

Oh, uh…I-I-I-I'm-I must have drove through, uh, a car wash wi-with my windows open?
~ Jerry Landers
in Oh, God! (1977)

Jerry: Ah, w-what's the problem, officer?
Cop: Well, I was about to ask you.
Jerry: Uh…m-m-my-my radiator must be leaking. I'm sorry about that. [opens car door; water copiously pours out of the vehicle; closes door]
Cop: A radiator doesn't hold that much water.
Jerry: Oh, uh…I-I-I-I'm-I must have drove through, uh, a car wash wi-with my windows open?
Cop: Oh, well. That would do it.
Jerry: Yeah.
Cop: Well, roll up the windows next time. [returns to his car]
- Jerry Landers (John Denver) and cop (John Ashton) in Oh, God! (1977), screenplay by Larry Gelbart, based on the novel by Avery Corman.

It is so fucking typical of you to create a problem like this when I finally have a chance to accomplish something—when I'm really into my work! I could really write my own ticket if I went back to Boulder now, couldn't I? Shovelling out driveways? Work in a car wash? Any of that appeal to you?
- Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) in The Shining (1980), written by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson, based on the novel by Stephen King.

You see, I can not go home a virgin. I came here to study the great American art of muff diving. [Van Wilder spits out his water] To-to-to smack clam, munch rug, dine at just one American pink taco stand! You know, I wanted to, how is it, park the porpoise. You know? I want to take it through the car wash, baby, you know? And get it waxed. You know, I want to wax it. Wax it! You know, and air dry. You know, air dry that shit, yeah! And I would like to be your assistant very much, Mr. Van Wilder.
- Taj Mahal Badalandabad (Kal Penn) in National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), written by Brent Goldberg and David Wagner.

Quotes from television

Phineas: We're gonna make the best dang car wash in the dang tristate area, dangit! …I can't really pull that off, can I?
Ferb: You're not very "street".
- Phineas Flynn (Vincent Martella) and Ferb Fletcher (Thomas Sangster) in "At the Car Wash," Phineas and Ferb (S2 E16, 22 June 2009), story by May Chan.

Quotes from music

Working at the car wash
Working at the car wash, yeah
Come on and sing it with me, car wash
Sing it with the feeling now, car wash, yeah
- Rose Royce, "Car Wash," Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (13 September 1976, written by Norman Whitfield), tr. 1.

We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars on their lunch break
Hosing and scrubbing as best they can in skirts in suits
Otherwise the bar is ours
The day and the night and the car wash, too
- Sheryl Crow, "All I Wanna Do," Tuesday Night Music Club (3 August 1993, written by Wyn Cooper, Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell, David Baerwald, and Kevin Gilbert), tr. 9.

Car wash (also on Sundays)
- Radiohead, "Fitter Happier," OK Computer (21 May 1997), tr. 7.

Robots fucking in the middle of the car wash
- TV on the Radio, "Robots," OK Calculator (2002), tr. 16.

External links

Encyclopedic article on Car wash on Wikipedia
Media related to Car washes on Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Car washing on Wikimedia Commons
Car Washing Techniques on Wikibooks
The dictionary definition of car wash on Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of jetwash on Wiktionary
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