[Perfectlap]

I drove about five miles out of my way to find one of these places.

You had to feed it $3.50 to start. The owner had a real issue with people drying the car in the bay and had this whole speech typed up about how our privileges only applied while the meter was running and you were expected to pull out as soon as your time was up. If you didn't move the car within a couple of minutes a really loud and annoying evacuation alarm would go off which everyone living across the street could clearly hear. Meanwhile every one of the bays was empty... It seems like a sensor to figure out when all the bays were full should have been implemented before annoying the whole block needlessly. To the owner's credit this was one of the few coin-operated places that had an air drying hose.