Thu 9 Nov 2006
On the drive in to work this morning, radio personality (and American Idol host) Ryan Seacrest kept throwing out teasers, saying that after the commercial break, he and his co-host Ellen K. will tell us about something you can do that’d get you out of any relationship dog house, it’s something so ingenius that even if you were on massive negative points, this one thing alone would put you back in the positive.
So I waited through many commercials. They returned. Ryan again said that this great idea is coming up to put you way ahead in the relationship game. They played a song. I waited. And then finally, the promised idea when I was already in the parking structure…
Ryan told us about a guy (presumably friend) who’s just tired of seeing his boyfriend’s car all dirty. The boyfriend wouldn’t clean out or wash the car. So one day when the boyfriend was out without his car, Ryan’s friend, at Ellen’s advice, took the car keys, drove the car out and had it washed, he filled the car up with gas, and then drove it back home. When the boyfriend came home and saw the sparkling car on the driveway, he was in enraptured joyous shock for 24 hours. “You cleaned my car? You took the keys, drove it out and had it washed? AND you put gas in it?” Impliedly Ryan’s friend got real lucky that day and night. “It’s so simple! It’ll solve all your relationship problems and put you way ahead in the positive! All the chocolates and flowers you can get don’t compare to this,” Ryan said. Ellen said, “See, and it’s something relatively effortless but it’s something that most people wouldn’t even think of. There’s just something about people and their cars.”
My reaction: :/
I imagined coming home and seeing that my car’s been suddenly washed. After the initial shock of disbelief, I’d freak out like so: “You washed my car? You TOOK my friggen keys, you DROVE my car out someplace, and HAD IT WASHED?! Where the HELL did you take it, some freaking automated carwash where they scratched my car to death with spinning sandpaper??? GIMME THE DAMN FLUORESCENT LIGHT! I wanna see how badly it’s scratched! DAMN this! Now I have to Zaino it with Z5 Scratch Remover! You better PRAY this sh!t comes out with 3 layers of Z5 polish! I’m probably gonna end up spending my entire freaking weekend claybar-ing it, too! Don’t look at me! Just…go away!!!”
But then I’m not your usual girl.
Hahah,
I would have the same reaction as you I think. You know, if I was going to do that for someone, I wouldn’t take it somewhere to be washed. I’d do it myself, and do the full Zaino treatment :). It means more anyway to do it yourself. But the tank of gas is nice!
I knew you would understand. But yeah, you’re right, I would totally do the Zaino treatment for someone else, which I honestly wouldn’t mind doing as long as they appreciate it.
haha. Meanie.
haha, I’d be the same way as you, except worse. Not only would I complain about where they got it washed, I’d also say “I hope that’s Unocal 76 91 octane in the tank”
I think the zaino owning and using population are a different breed when it comes to car care.
Oh YEAH! I totally didn’t think about the gas! My car takes premium fuel, so if they put Arco or regular fuel in it I’d make them syphon it out of my gas tank by mouth. Haha, we’re such anal ingrates.
Wait… Did I hear you say you wouldn’t mind doing the Zaino treatment for someone else as long as they appreciate it?
Well heck.. I would really appreciate it if you were to Zaino my car(s)!!!! 🙂
Didn’t I do that already last Tuesday? AND I brought you a bottle of German ice wine.
We only washed the cars, we didn’t Zaino it :). Well ok if you want to be technical about it we did use Zaino carwash. But I’m not sure that “Zainoing a car” is fulfilled with just the soap.
And I did thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the Eisewein. I really need to add some of that to my collection. I’m definately going to keep an eye out for them now.
I saw some at Trader Joe’s last month.
hahaha…well if your sig other really knows you, they would know all the things you are anal about, including how or where you like to wash your car and what kind of gas to put in. that’s where they would earn HUGE brownie points and get REALLY lucky.
mmmmm eisewein. i love that stuff. a really great one is from Blue Danube. Their Eiswein is sooooooooo yum. but pricey…
http://www.bluedanubewine.com/wineshop.html
Chance hasn’t wash his care in a LONG time, so he would be thrill if I did something like that. Last time I took his car for an oil change, I got some add’l recommended work done, filled the tank and put some new windshield wipers and I wasn’t even in the dog house. 🙂
Mel – you are SO right. Mr. W said, “I ain’t even gonna TOUCH your stuff, no.” And I think all Eiswein is expensive. The price of yumminess.
Vanessa – I think in the scale of anal-ness, Chance and I don’t stand next to each other. haha. I would’ve appreciated it on my last car, not this one.