Yesterday, the topic of car washes came up with one of my adult students and I told him about self service car washes. He freaked out!!! He couldn't believe the idea and kept saying how embarrassing it was. He insisted that he would never do that and if I were his girlfriend he wouldn't be seen with me doing that.
He said, "What would people think?! That you don't have enough money for someone else to wash your car? It's like wanting to cook your own food at a restaurant."
I saw his point, but tried to explain that it wasn't weird in my culture to wash your own car at a place. A lot of people don't have hoses at home and the water pressure is better at the place. It saves water, too. He said I was lying because he has seen that hoses say "made in the USA." Hahahaha.
I just let it go as an impasse... but it still makes me laugh. This seems so funny to me to freak out about something like this when I see such weird things happening here on a daily basis... like babies riding on the handle bars of a motorcycle.... or someone riding a bike with a mattress on one shoulder.
Culture!
He also asserted that people in the US have so much junk in their cars. At least in my case, this is true. I laughed when I thought about the trunk of my old car and how someone could literally have been living out of it. I told him what was in it and we laughed a lot. It is true.... every car I have been in here has had nothing in it except what the person is currently transporting and the emergency kit. Granted, most people I know don't have cars.... but, then again... the houses are like that as well. There seem to be no random items.... not even a jar of pencils or sticky notes, or fridge magnets. My friend once told me that my fridge magnets and notes made my house look very Gringa.
I wonder if I'll have learned to carry less junk around in my car through osmosis. hahahahahah
Now that's really funny, how they have not clutter in the house or the car.
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