Never buy or sell anything on the doorstep. This rule has served me well in the past but rules are made to be broken. Wash Doctors knocked on the door and hooked me.
Once, if I may digress, a personable salesman with more charm than substance asked me to sign a long, small-print contract to switch to another utility supplier. I said I’d read the contract but that wasn’t his game; I had to sign immediately; well he wasn’t that charming. Do you remember the line in Sondheim’s Into The Woods: “I’m Prince Charming, I never said I was sincere.”
Back to Washers. I rather hoped they would mend and clean my suits. If you are observant you will be aware that moth especially like to munch the trouser crotch. It’s the urine they can’t resist – chacon à son goût. Well, to put it in a nutshell, they wash your car. So long as you don’t need the inside cleaned they do it while you are at work or play.
It costs £3.99 to go through a drive-in car wash and Washers costs £14 for their entry level clean. A conventional automatic wash uses about 200 litres of water and the plastic brushes don’t do much good to the paintwork. Actually, a friend had a silver greyhound on his bonnet, the brush got snagged on it and ripped his bonnet off. Washers use just one litre of water. So how was it for my jalopy?
First you place your trust in Wash Doctors. They charge your credit/debit card before their operative mounts his bicycle to pedal over to Barons Court. Then, if you want the interior cleaned, as I did, you hand over your car keys and hope not to see Dr Wash speeding away in your car. However, my trust was not misplaced. My car was cleaned inside and out, 199 litres of water was saved and Dr Wash was 100% professional.
It’s a small point and maybe misses a bigger one, but don’t mechanised carwashes generally recycle their water pretty frugally? And yr £14 looks expensive compared with the amiable handwashers of most supermarket carparks. I say these slight things as one who is generally wholly admiring of yr lifestyle choices.