My car,

A 2023 Kia Soul named Celeste,

Got a wash today.

She’d gotten the spattery dust-film that comes with rain

So this time round I paid two bucks extra for wax.

Nowadays

A car owner may get asked CAR WASH TODAY? on the pump display that has the card reader,

And a YES answer gives you three options

And I chose the wax one

And the receipt I got for my gas also printed the code

That I entered when I went through the carwash drive-thru

That greenlit the wax job as a pleasant nonhuman voice asked me to please pull ahead slowly.

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Celeste is clean now

But there’s 20% chance of rain tomorrow,

40% Friday,

But the wax might make a difference in precipitation residue

But I’m pretty sure Celeste is indifferent

But auto-respect must be paid.