800 miles for a car wash?

[RawleyD]

Originally Posted by CoBeerToad

Is it bad that I'm more excited to get the car washed than to see my friends?

You can't be serious..

[CoBeerToad]

OK. Maybe not that much. Stopped for gas in Pacific MO and found a car wash place to spray the hell out of it. The Chicago nastiness on my car was terrible. So I feel better now. Car made it smoothly. Roughly 26 mpg. Except for the last stretch where they closed I-44 right before Tulsa and I had to detour. Being a guy, I had no idea where I was going, but I had to make sure I got there fast so I got to beat up the car for about 40 miles before I eventually found my way around the detour.

Bad news is when I got here the girl I was driving with wouldn't let me put the top down when it was 60 degrees yesterday. Today, it's 28 degrees. I think it will be close to 60 on Tuesday and she will have the option of having the top down or walking.

[CoBeerToad]

Talk about your all-time backfires. When I left for OK on 12/27, the weather forecast for Chicago for the next week was clear and cold. Was supposed to drive back on 1/1, but due to the weather in Chicago, I stayed an extra day. About a foot of snow dropped here over the past day or two and probably about 2 feet of salt. My car is 10x worse now than when I left. And with a forecast in the negative teens over the next few days, it's going to stay that way.

At least I got the top down for about an hour in December while I was there.