Dog Wash

So one of the hardest parts of taking care of my dog is giving her a bath. I have a small shower and trying to get her to stay in there while I shampoo her fur and then get her rinsed off is nearly impossible. When I do manage it I ended up soaked from head to toe! Then I have the fun battle of trying to towel her off before she can start shaking and get everything else soaking wet! In other words it's a major headache.

However there's a car wash place not far from me that advertised doggie washes. Intrigued I talked to my dad who had used this service before and he said it worked out pretty well. So I decided to give it a shot. I got my sixty pound dog all loaded up in the backseat of my little car, made sure I put towels in the back to dry her off and headed into town.

First I parked my car in one of the bays and climbed out, not sure what I was doing I started reading the signs, hoping to find directions. But there was nothing about the doggie wash! Then someone walks up and tells me I should park in one of the others bays to wash my car because it's bigger, realizing they worked there I said, "Oh I'm just here to wash my dog?"
And the guy is like "Oh, okay."
Then he starts to walk off and I'm like, "Wait! Do I wash the dog here?"

At this point I'm pretty sure the guy wanted to start laughing but he didn't and he showed me another door that said "Doggie Wash!" Wouldn't you know it, I had driven right beside it and hadn't even seen it! So he takes me inside and shows me how to get it set up.

I had ten dollars in quarters and he gave me dollar coins, telling me that way I didn't have to put so many coins in. For some reason it took me until I was almost done to realize that 40 quarters is equal to 10 $1 coins and he was just trying to save me time.

So I get the dog, up the ramp into the bathtub type thing and start putting in coins but I can't get any water to come out. A little confused I finally went back out and asked, "Do I have to put in all the coins to get it to start?"
At this point the guy was laughing, but in a nice way, and he's like, "Yeah, you do."
Finally I just grinned, "Sorry, I swear I should've been born with blonde hair!" (I have brown hair by the way.)
Thankfully he just laughed and in only ten minutes I had my doggie all washed up and dried off and got her back in the car, much to her relief.

Still... despite the confusion this adventure did turn out to be far easier then trying to wash the dog at home!