Vent and rant about the car cleaning services in car parks (and other people touting)

Lou67

It happens in quite a few car parks, including my local shopping centre one... EVERY time I get out of my car (and I go into my shopping centre 4 or 5 times a week for work or shopping; ) I get 'you want car wash?' And I say no every time, as I wash my own car. My problem is not so much with the fact that they are asking, (although I get sick of it 3 or 4 times a week!) it's the dirty look I get when I say 'no thank you.' Like I am robbing them of their livelihood!

Same goes for this eyebrow and eyelash shaping stall in the indoor shopping centre. EVERY time I go past, they try to drag me in, and I say 'no.' They asked me three times in one visit a few months back, and on the third time, I said 'No,' quite firmly and then said 'you already asked me twice today..' And this past few months, the girl that runs it gives me a nasty scowl. I am so tempted to tell the centre manager. I actually avoid the mall that this stall is in if I remember, making me have to walk an extra few minutes.

And don't get me started on charities that wait outside the door of M and S and Asda, to try and grab you, and make you sign up to their charity. And then when you say 'no' you get a 'look' from them... Anyone else experienced stuff like this? And does anyone else suffer the 'you want car wash' pests?!

thistledome

Nothing like this where I live, thankfully. I don't like being pestered by people, especially people trying to sell me something I don't want.

All we have here is a Big Issue seller who doesn't speak much english, he just says "hello" as you walk by him. He also says "hello" again on your way out, so seems not to have learnt "goodbye" yet.

Lou67

Lucky you thistledome! Maybe it's because I live in a large town.

skivenov

Find a local print shop and get them to do you a hi-vis with "IMMIGRATION" printed across the back, should solve it nicely.

Lou67

skivenov wrote: »

Find a local print shop and get them to do you a hi-vis with "IMMIGRATION" printed across the back, should solve it nicely.

LOL!!! How did you know they weren't indigenous to this country?!

Barneysmom

And the amount of side-of-the-road car washes these days!

Do we really need that many? They are almost matched by the amount of takeaways.
Cities are becoming very scruffy.

Lou67

Barneysmom wrote: »

And the amount of side-of-the-road car washes these days!

Do we really need that many? They are almost matched by the amount of takeaways.
Cities are becoming very scruffy.

I know...

djl

skivenov wrote: »

Find a local print shop and get them to do you a hi-vis with "IMMIGRATION" printed across the back, should solve it nicely.

Thats funny :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

upsadaisy

You clearly make too much eye contact with these people. I have never been approached for a car wash. Pretty sure that in car parks the system works that you park in a designated wash bay and that's how they know you want your car washed. I suspect that because it irritates you and you think they are going to ask you, you look for them.

Either that or you have a filthy car and really bushy eyebrows...

YoungBusinessman

Just dont make eye contact/ignore, if they get right in your way tell them to shift and not to ask again or you will complain. Should get rid of them for good.

paddyrg

God I forget how much I love living somewhere civilised where the worst hazard is chuggers! Thank you for the reminder!!