The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 24, 2025

I need to wash mine.

Brutus saved the car wash money.

If its a warm rain, I wash it. Easier than in sun and it rinses cleaner.

The real answer should be, “I told Wilberforce to wash the car.”

“Mac Arthur, park the car out in the rain….”

works fine here

Carwash … does anybody remember Joy Harmon as Lucille in Cool Hand Luke?

the no-hassle method!

The neighbor washing his car was what precipitated the rain that cleaned Brutus’s! Pun intended!

hopefully it didn’t hail all over it. :}

That my idea of a car wash!

I don’t have a car to wash, so I don’t need to worry about it.

I did that last week

This morning, I saw my neighbor washing his car with his teenage daughter. I just wash my car with a soapy sponge.

i heard that texas was going to pay for everyones car wash since it was their dirt that was blowing everywhere

Don’t get me started on my daughter’s car. Oh, you didn’t ask? So’s anyway, she hadn’t washed her car in the 5 years she’s owned it. So, when we came to visit, I took one look at her car and I took it through a carwash, but the crud was so stuck that you couldn’t get it off with a blow torch. Happy ending: We moved to the same city, and she had just bought a new car, so every time we visit her, I take her car to wash and vacuum. Now if we could just get her to clean her apartment.

Attaboy Brutus……..

We are supposed to wash them? I have only had this car a few months.

Good thinking Brutus .

That wouldn’t have worked in Peoria last week. The line of thunderstorms and tornados sucked up the good ol’ Illinois topsoil creating brown clouds and mud rain.

F150 XLT truck I drive the most is a 2018 with about 40,000 miles. Been washed once. I rinse it off weekly with garden hose normally but Pollen falling so bad now, I hose down daily. We take the good with the bad. Learned that from Bible Book of JOB. Job 2:10

Anyone ever wrote the words “Wash Me” on the car before with their finger?

Yeah, why not take advantage of that pesky rain.

I probably should wash one of mine – last time it was done would have been October, the other should OK it was done in November (and has sat in garage since – need to check it’s still on charge)

I just brushed the snow and slush off my van and it took the dirt with it

Smart man, Thorny! The “Mother Nature Car Wash”! Ha!

I expected Thorney to say “I have never wanted to wash your car!”

Our cars can get pretty salty in the winters.

it was finally warm enough on a recent calm day that i got motivated to wash the windows and it was great to briefly enjoy a clear view of the still snow-covered mountains. then the wind came up off the ocean and deposited a fresh layer of salt… ☺

I’m going to wash my neighbors car on Wednesday, but I have had it for 3 weeks while mine is waiting on a part. The part came in today, happy dance!

I don’t manually wash my car as often as I should. However, I too, let the rain wash my car and as I live in the Pacific Northwest, it pretty well gets washed a couple of times a week……

Ah, Brutus, I’m not surprised that you don’t want to take your car to the car wash (I won’t even get into the remote possibility that we’ll ever see you in your driveway with hose, bucket and sponges, doing the job yourself). No doubt you’re still traumatized by your car wash nightmare of September 1, 2024.

I owe Brutus an apology (see my comment above). Continuing to browse through the strips of last September, I was reminded that on September 14, 2024, he declared that he was sick of washing his car every Saturday. No trauma, no laziness — he’s just fed up with that weekly chore!

My dad was the exact opposite. Every Saturday afternoon was dedicated to washing his car. Yet it always rained after he washed it which really annoyed him. One time we were going through a really long dry spell when it hadn’t rained for about 3 weeks. Dad had a long drive to work and the Government had issued a hosepipe ban and we weren’t allowed to wash cars or use anything else other than a watering can to water the garden to help preserve water. After 3 weeks of not being able to wash his car Dad was getting upset about its filthy state. One Saturday he snapped and just went out and washed it with a bucket of water and just hosed it down. After he had finished he went inside. Only about 10 minutes later the clouds gathered and for the first time in nearly a month the heavens opened and it poured with rain and didn’t let up for about 3 hours. We told him he should have washed his car weeks previous to this so he could have finished the drought long since.

For the first time this year I turned on the AC in the house, the high was 94 today and a low of 62. 97 tomorrow :(