Photoshop and the car wash
Once again I have started down the path of P-Shop addiction. This time I'm attempting to learn all about making interfaces. You might have already noticed a couple attempts, here at the top and a couple in the picture gallery. Who knows, maybe I will someday end up with something decent and a skill that I can sell! >_<
Until I find something better to write about, how about another rant about Germany!?
For exmple, attempting to wash a car...
Nomally in the land of the capitalist this involves two things: a.) driving to the car wash, and b.) $5.
However, in 'Everything is closed all the time' land (ie: Germany) things just aren't all that simple. The first thing you have to do is find some place you can wash the car. If you're lucky, your favorite gas station will have some sort of automatic car wash. Next you cant't just walk up and feed the machine money... oh no, you need to go inside and get a special little card for the machine from the cashier.
Steps 3-5 involve getting your car into the automatic car wash, using the card machine, and waiting outside the vehicle. That means driving in, parking, and then stepping out to go activate the machine. Apparantly automatic car washes are either to traumatizing to sit though, to dangerous, or both. In any case, you are required to be outside the vehicle while the machine does its thing. (And if you ask why, they look at you funny and tell you in a very serious tone that it is for insurance purposes.)
The actual washing of the car is somewhat normal, other than the fact that you get to stand outside and freeze while waiting.
The worst part of the whole ordeal is finding a carwash that is open. Apparantly, the gas station being open has absolutely nothing to do with the carwash (that is physically attached to the gast station) being open. I don't get it, it's an "automatic car wash." To me, automatic means that no one will be assisting you in the car washing process. If it's not necessary for someone to help you, other than to sell you the carwash card, and the gas station is open to fulfill this function, then why in the bejeesus can't the carwash be open too???
Sometimes capitalism is a good thing.
..Symple
Until I find something better to write about, how about another rant about Germany!?
For exmple, attempting to wash a car...
Nomally in the land of the capitalist this involves two things: a.) driving to the car wash, and b.) $5.
However, in 'Everything is closed all the time' land (ie: Germany) things just aren't all that simple. The first thing you have to do is find some place you can wash the car. If you're lucky, your favorite gas station will have some sort of automatic car wash. Next you cant't just walk up and feed the machine money... oh no, you need to go inside and get a special little card for the machine from the cashier.
Steps 3-5 involve getting your car into the automatic car wash, using the card machine, and waiting outside the vehicle. That means driving in, parking, and then stepping out to go activate the machine. Apparantly automatic car washes are either to traumatizing to sit though, to dangerous, or both. In any case, you are required to be outside the vehicle while the machine does its thing. (And if you ask why, they look at you funny and tell you in a very serious tone that it is for insurance purposes.)
The actual washing of the car is somewhat normal, other than the fact that you get to stand outside and freeze while waiting.
The worst part of the whole ordeal is finding a carwash that is open. Apparantly, the gas station being open has absolutely nothing to do with the carwash (that is physically attached to the gast station) being open. I don't get it, it's an "automatic car wash." To me, automatic means that no one will be assisting you in the car washing process. If it's not necessary for someone to help you, other than to sell you the carwash card, and the gas station is open to fulfill this function, then why in the bejeesus can't the carwash be open too???
Sometimes capitalism is a good thing.
..Symple
posted by Symple at 3:05 PM
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