OPEN LETTER TO MALLS: Car washers in public parking

[Foxhound5366]

Looks like you assumed Foxhound's race and gender

Even worse he assumed my CT (car type). Blue sedan was never me (white and silver yes). But I'm now in my red SUV era, thank you.

 

[Foxhound5366]

I see this is the official FFT, carry on, nothing more to see here...

Always here to please, Neuk. Next time you get approached for a carwash, think of me.

 

[Adhvik]

Wtf? I haven't been to Montecasino in a good few months so missed this exciting innovation. How did they worm their way in there? Is this like a mafia activity? The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that maybe carwashers are peddling heroin if you select a special carwash (possibly left in your car discretely to await your return).

Its all one company called Plush

 

[satanboy]

I haven't perfected a stony faced silence as you walk past an extended menu of prices. How ever do you do it? The CIA would like to hire you.

I'm not a grumpy Gus; I normally say "no thanks" and walk on. I turn deaf when they continue asking.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

I haven't perfected a stony faced silence as you walk past an extended menu of prices. How ever do you do it? The CIA would like to hire you.

My Mossad training pays off, I used to react every-time I saw "free Palestine" on a Golf, then I remembered my training,
sky is Blue, Grass is green.

 

[Adhvik]

Why don't you shop somewhere else without car washers?

Its actually being deterrent to go to malls. Rather shop online. There needs to be an article on this

 

[Adhvik]

So I sent the letter below to two malls exactly a week ago ... and got zero response.

Anyone else who feels the same is welcome to send this same email to them, or another mall in your area which is guilty of the act of welcoming shoppers with the refrain of "Carwash?" the very second you open your car door in the parking lot.

Agreed, if I am paying for parking I dont need to deal with this. There needs to be a proper article on this. The carwash service is performed largely by one company called Plush

 

[w1z4rd]

This! Then you have to say no thanks to the car guard when he greets you for no reason at all. Then you have to say no thanks to the shoe cleaner inside the mall. Then you have to say no thanks to the guy flogging a gym membership at you. Then you have to say no thanks to the person at the shop you just walked into because you know what you want and can get it yourself. Then you have to dodge a few parked cars inside the mall being sold. Where does it end?

I think you would die in Vietnam if you ever visited here. You get someone approaching to sell you something every 20 meters or so. No, it doesnt bother me, I just say no thanks (sometimes you have to tell them multiple times). It doesnt bother me and if it did, and I let it get to me, Im sure I would just be a miserable grump.

 

[Adhvik]

Hopefully supply and demand will sort these activities out. If there is no demand for such services and we'll all collectively boycott car wash services and malls, the malls will wake up.

 

[Foxhound5366]

Its all one company called Plush

Know thine enemy. Goooood, goooood. Now we need some investigative journalist to figure out how Plush convinced the malls to permit this. Surely nobody else trying to sell a service would be permitted to approach all motorists, so does someone in Plush have family members in the big mall owners, or is it all an elaborate front for selling drugs (I haven't yet tried ordering a carwash with ALL the extras *wink wink*)?

 

[Smiggles]

I think you would die in Vietnam if you ever visited here. You get someone approaching to sell you something every 20 meters or so. No, it doesnt bother me, I just say no thanks (sometimes you have to tell them multiple times). It doesnt bother me and if it did, and I let it get to me, Im sure I would just be a miserable grump.

Happens here as well I get harassed by beggars and hawkers at all times.

“When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is... Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it... Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”
— Steve Jobs

Nothing wrong with trying to change things. If I didn't I'd still be getting harrassed by Nudebt daily asking me to pay a tv licence that isn't even mine instead I called them up weekly for months until things stopped. The dog next door would still be barking and howling and crying at all ours if I didn't email the municipality weekly for months until the dog got removed from the property. I live in a block of flats and no one else bothered to do anything about it.

 

[Grubscrew]

There's an element of slavery/exploitation going on too. Pretty sure our hosts wrote about the washers having to 'rent' their places and the fat cadre franchise owners treating them like dirt.

this...

 

[KulQkumba]

Oh you haven't met me. There is a reason I don't have friends. They just ask me the first time and then they avoid me afterwords.

I will remind myself to avoid the fskr in the horned helmet when I'm next in the Midlands area

 

[Progenix Oj101]

I don't know how often you as managers park in the public bays (I presume you enjoy private staff parking)

As someone who has worked in a mall, I can tell you that most center management staff come by taxi...

 

[Foxhound5366]

As someone who has worked in a mall, I can tell you that most center management staff come by taxi...

Guess that's why they don't get offered car washes so don't understand how big an issue this is.

 

[dontcryforme]

A car can be spotless and they will still hassle you

 

[dontcryforme]

Given the job situation in South Africa, I’m sure the families of car washers wouldn’t mind them missing out on income for food, as long as you don’t have to say “no car wash, please” when you visit the mall.

The ANC must give them jobs

 

[Crowley]

I know correlation doesn’t equal causation but humor me here. @Foxhound5366 and @Smiggles , which phones do you guys have?

 

[Foxhound5366]

I know correlation doesn’t equal causation but humor me here. @Foxhound5366 and @Smiggles , which phones do you guys have?

I don't have a phone. I send handscrawled missives via fax, the way God intended it.

 

[Smiggles]

I know correlation doesn’t equal causation but humor me here. @Foxhound5366 and @Smiggles , which phones do you guys have?

You love hearing voices all the time?