Today N and I went on a date to this amazing place that made us feel like all-American teenagers. I’m sure my US readers know exactly where this photo was taken but can people from overseas guess?
14 responses to “Like Teenagers”
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The color reminds of sea / aquarium, but it’s most likely something different.
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It’s a typically AMERICAN experience, so keep guessing. 🙂 🙂
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I totally think I know where you are (and I thoroughly enjoy doing that myself, it makes me happy, except for the smell). Though I’m American, so I won’t spoil it for everyone else…
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A carwash?
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Paintball?
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Do they not have car washes in other countries? Add that to the list of weird things I never knew were uniquely American.
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Nope. Car washes were one of my favourite things to stare at as a British kid.
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I’m sure there are but in other places many people survive perfectly well without a car and don’t have them in their immediate frame of reference.
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And many Americans (like me) never used a commercial car wash. But it’s one of those things that gets embedded in many non-Americans’ psyches as somehow quintessential to the American experience.
“my US readers know exactly where this photo was taken”
That was the clue that told me where it was more than the picture itself.
I’m remembering that many years ago I had a job that required me to drive 50 miles (starting around 5.00 am) and then wait around for about five hours before driving back. Being young and dumb (and mostly broke because the job didn’t really pay anything) I often had early lunch at a Mickey D’s which was next to a thriving full service car wash with hordes of young worker bees vacuumed and washed the inside of the car. No point, just rambling…..
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The funny thing is that the car remained almost as dirty as it had been before we went to the wash. But we sure had fun!
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Typical American Experience?
Is that Camo Netting? 😀LikeLike
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The first thing I thought of was the slime from Nickelodeon.
http://nickelodeon.wikia.com/wiki/Slime(My American childhood involved a far greater number of silly TV shows than visits to the car wash…)
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Romantic date, eh?
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