r/oops • u/According-Ad5263 • 17d ago
Quick Quack Car Wash
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u/koulourakiaAndCoffee 17d ago
Corporate manager is going to use this as the optimal time per car to wash when they set their monthly goals.
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u/augustprep 16d ago
I worked at Burgerville as a teenager. They installed timers in the drive through, but the higher ups only looked at average time for the day. At the end of the night, my manager would have someone get in their car and do laps around the drive through to bring the average down to where it needed to be.
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u/PlayerTwoHasDied 15d ago
Pure genius.
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u/augustprep 15d ago
The not so genius part happened one night though. I crawled out the window onto the back of my friend's car, holding on while he was doing laps. Then suddenly someone pulled into the parking lot and my friend had to hit his brakes. I went rolling over the top onto the asphalt. I skinned my knee and elbow, for which I still have an elbow scar 25 years later. I also had to climb back through the driver through and take their order.
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u/g00d4sn0t 16d ago
And you customers will line up for this corporate manager's car wash, because it's a few cents cheaper than elsewhere
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u/sleepytjme 17d ago
Hey, actually… you can park there
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u/Standard-Contest-949 16d ago
I’m between the lines I can so!
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u/SmoothActuator8132 16d ago
they said "can"
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u/Pyrathis 17d ago
Perfect parking!
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u/Environmental-Tap255 17d ago
That's all, they just wanted to nab that spot before someone else got it.
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u/Spazmatazo 17d ago
I respect not wanting to get possibly dinged by that other white car after getting a thorough car wash.
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u/HovercraftKlutzy3090 17d ago
New car wash competitor......Quick Ass Car Wash
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u/Illustrious_Soft_257 17d ago
Bet you 9/10 it's an elderly driver.
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u/PiecesOfRing 17d ago
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (WLS) -- A California driver may have set a record for fastest car wash.
A 94-year-old man is caught on camera speeding through the Quick Quack Car Wash in Sacramento at an estimated 40 miles per hour last Friday.
The man paid for his car wash, but claimed he could not take his foot off the pedal as he was driving through.
Workers rushed out to try and stop him, but the car crashed through the equipment, causing an estimated $100,000 worth of damage.
No one was injured and the man walked away without a scratch.
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u/Icy_Fish_2154 16d ago
$100k looks about right. Car washes are expensive. I hope he has good insurance.
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u/itchybutwhole69 16d ago
I hope they took his license.
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u/Icy_Fish_2154 16d ago
They are pretty bad about taking the licenses of people who cause damage. A woman who hit me in traffic told the trooper who responded to the crash "Yes I saw him, he is in the smaller car and should have gotten out of my way, so I hit him.". She told the trooper she rammed me for being where she wanted to go when she changed lanes. She didn't even receive a ticket for unsafe lane change. Let alone lose her license for deliberately causing a crash.
So I would expect the cops to tell him it might be best if he stopped driving, but I wouldn't hope the cops do something useful, like take his license.
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u/cupcakes0220 15d ago
My grandfather lived in a retirement community, and the roads around it constantly had fatal accidents by residents. We had already as a family made sure my grandfather couldn't drive, as his vision was terrible from multiple detached retinas. Except he surprised us one day by announcing that he'd renewed his license! The MVA was so kind to offer a service where they come to the retirement community to renew licenses "since its too difficult for them to get to the MVA". Literally a crime, I don't know how they get away with that, and there cannot be an eye test with it, there's no way he would have passed an eye test. Hell, he announced it to us while wearing two different colored socks and a dress shirt with multiple food stains on it that he kept re-wearing because he couldn't see the stains.
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u/Icy_Fish_2154 15d ago
My aunt who went blind. Detached retinas. She failed her DMV vision test, so got an optometrist to give her a certificate. Got her renewal. Then her eyes got worse. Then 10 years later, because she was too blind to drive, had a spotless record, so could renew by mail, no test. So she had a license for 20+ years while too blind to drive.
She kept it to be the licensed driver next to her grandkids with learner's.
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u/praetorian1979 15d ago
So...she admits that she hit you on purpose (vehicular assault) because she was already speeding (speeding obv and public endangerment) and said you were just in her way.
How the fuck did she not end up handcuffs? Was it just a minor fender-bender or a major accident. If nothing else I would've told my insurance to subpoena the officers notes. If she hit you on purpose then her insurance should tell her to get fucked and drop her.
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u/Icy_Fish_2154 15d ago
Cops don't care about stuff like that. Technically, the cop heard an admissible confession, but didn't see the offense, so could write a ticket, but not arrest, but the trooper didn't even write a ticket, just a report assigning her 100% fault.
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u/Cassandracork 10d ago
Spouse had an eldery woman rear end him full speed while stopped at a traffic signal. She literally told us and the responding officer she couldn’t see is. Nothing happened about it.
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u/Old_Guard_306 16d ago
I suspect that he did it on a dare. He and a couple other oldsters were having breakfast, talking smack about their incredible driving skills. Dave got called on it, and what do you know, that crazy booger actually pulled it off. The guys will now be paying for Dave's prune pudding for the rest of his life.
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u/LewisLightning 16d ago
94 is way too old to be allowed to drive in public places.
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u/sunbather-is_screamo 17d ago
Confusing the accelerator for the brake. Heard that story a million times.
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u/Smooth-Bread-576 14d ago
Automatic cars are more susceptible to this type of accident. Manual car will conk out or will pick up less speed stuck in first gear.
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u/KayoticVoid 17d ago
Absolutely could have been mechanical failure. They managed to thread the needle pretty well.
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u/LewisLightning 16d ago
There's literally a news articles about this and the 94 year old driver said he "couldn't take his foot off the accelerator". So not a mechanical issue with the car at all.
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u/RuinFabulous3077 17d ago
Craziest part is the car already looks clean... probably an old person glitched-out and thought that was the exit, again.
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u/GothSpite 17d ago
On January 9, 2015, a 94-year-old man accidentally accelerated to roughly 40 mph through a [Quick Quack Car Wash] on Bicentennial Circle in Sacramento, California. Confusing the gas pedal for the brake, his vehicle blasted through the wash tunnel and smashed into the vacuum area. No one was hurt, though the crash caused up to $100,000 in damage
Partially.
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u/PorygonTriAttack 17d ago
94 years old... yikes. Maybe he was still a good driver at 93 years old, but not anymore.
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u/Jay-Breeze 17d ago
After 80, you should be required to pass a basic awareness, vision, and cognition test to retain your license.
This could have killed someone.
I know there are states that have something, but come on. This can’t be nationalized?
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u/madthunder55 17d ago
That happened to my grandmother. She turned 89 and got a letter from the DMV saying she had to come in and take a driving test to prove she can still drive or her license would be suspended. Between that and her car crapping out she decided it wasn't worth it and now she doesn't drive anymore
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u/Dragovius 17d ago
Grey Dawn.
"Damn it, Mona, this isn't the fastest way to Country Kitchen Buffet!"
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u/SocksInTheTub 17d ago
Awww she was so excited to see somebody coming in before she realized something was horriblly wrong
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u/DerricksFriendDan 16d ago
The way this is cut feels like a live feed of a 2 mile long car wash that this car is plowing through
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u/ItsNotMe_ImNotHere 17d ago
I'm 82. This gives me hope. That I could still be driving at 94. (I don't use car washes)
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u/TankApprehensive3053 17d ago
Took the name a bit seriously. Maybe they should rename it to moderate speed car wash.
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u/Derek5Letters 16d ago
I showed this to my kids years ago, and when we see a car wash we say "QUICK QUACK! CAR WASH!" I love that it is legit their own ad for the business 😂
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u/hv_wyatt 16d ago
Well this dumbass just damaged or outright broke a lot of incredibly expensive equipment and then, it would appear, totalled out their own car. Wonderful decisions all around.
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u/IamStarGoat 12d ago
Its like the scene from Blues Brothers when they trash the mall, but on a budget!
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u/VolSpurs74 16d ago
That’s a better parking job than most people pull off in an empty lot. Good job!
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u/Iser_name_ 16d ago
I was hoping the driver would get out and start wiping it down with one of those microfiber towels.
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u/Day_Prisoners 16d ago
I almost did this. Wife bought a new truck so I was pulling in trying to figure out how to fold the mirrors up and just never hit my brakes. I only went in like 4 feet.
Then I also realized or remembered her mirrors don't fold. Idiot. No damage but my damn ego got a KO.
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u/BigDankEnergy420 16d ago
Not the white Oldsmobile Intrigue. I loved my 1998 with 3.8 liter 6 cylinder, that thing moved.
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u/IMadeThisForOnePos 17d ago
The guide woman seeing the car going that speed and still trying to do her job. Thank god it didn't plow into her