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to complain about hand car wash staff?

85 replies

WhereIsMyBlueCastle · 24/01/2017 12:39

Went to a local supermarket this morning and decided to have my car cleaned - there is a hand car wash in the car park. Done my shopping and looked out of the window to see if the car was ready. There were some 3 people still cleaning, doors and boot open. Now, as DS is learning to swim I have a float and this long foam noodle/woggle in the boot. While I was watching, one man took this noodle, looked around, swung it and slapped his female colleague's bottom and then put the noodle back in the boot.

I went to collect my car, talked to the person in charge and he agreed it shouldn't have happened. He called his staff and asked me who it was, but I couldn't tell. They all just stared at me in silence as though I was some kind of a monster.

WIBU to complain?

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Downstairspoo · 24/01/2017 13:02

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VintagePerfumista · 24/01/2017 13:09

Trying to work out if this is a feminist issue (bottom noddling) or an immigration one (99.99% of hand car wash staff being low paid Eastern Europeans)

Just which faction of MN is OP trying to goad?

T'aint going work. Give over.

WhereIsMyBlueCastle · 24/01/2017 13:09

Thanks everybody!
I didn't like the fact that someone takes my stuff and plays around with it, be it a noodle or something else. But it seems you are all happy with strangers poking through your stuff!
Lineys - they were all wearing same uniforms and I was to far to see his face.

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Buddahbelly · 24/01/2017 13:11

I thought you were going to say you saw them driving your car whilst it was in for a clean (yes I have seen this happening, and is the reason I was it myself or go through a drive through.)

Dont think it was that big a deal to be honest.

NotAPuffin · 24/01/2017 13:11

Oh no, arsecooties! BURN THE NOODLE!

FizzBombBathTime · 24/01/2017 13:12

Poking through you stuff? If they hadn't have moved your boot crap to clean it, you would have complained they didn't do a thorough enough job. Poor buggers can't win! Hmm

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LineysRun · 24/01/2017 13:13

I'd have to see a complete re-enactment to judge tbh, along with distance markers, details of your eyesight, a statement from the female employee and a weather report.

Butteredpars1ps · 24/01/2017 13:13

Shall I start the bingo card?

Call 101 and report it OP.

MadHattersWineParty · 24/01/2017 13:14

Oh no OP!

Well you left your car with them. So it's a bit weird that you're getting hung up on them touching your stuff.

FizzBombBathTime · 24/01/2017 13:16

LTB

adhdoh · 24/01/2017 13:17

were you parked in parent & child parking?

JustSpeakSense · 24/01/2017 13:17
Biscuit
TheNaze73 · 24/01/2017 13:20

Log an official complaint
LTB
Write to your MP

GrumpyOldBag · 24/01/2017 13:24

You posted in AIBU OP, you should suck up the responses even if they don't agree with you.

Especially, actually.

littlepeas · 24/01/2017 13:25

This has amused me!

temporarilyjerry · 24/01/2017 13:26

Let them have a bit of fun with your noodle.

There's a sentence you didn't expect to say today, Viques.

LineysRun · 24/01/2017 13:26

The co-chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on hand car washing could do a live webchat?

Libbylove2015 · 24/01/2017 13:26

YAB MASSIVELY U

If it was a precious crystal vase, I'd be annoyed.

As it was a flexible, bendy foam roller, I'd just snigger to myself.

Maudlinmaud · 24/01/2017 13:29

Do the cool people still say "face palm"
Cos I want to!

Sparklingbrook · 24/01/2017 13:29

Sad face shot for the Daily Mail. Holding the violated noodle.

Complain on local FB Spotted page to prevent this happening to anyone else.

Call 101 and get it logged.

FuckOffDailyMailQuitQuotingMN · 24/01/2017 13:29

A car wash line up to point out the noodle criminal 😂

At our local handwash they take the stuff out of the boot so they can properly clean it. I've never worried about them "handling my things"

Let alone my noodle 😂

chipsandchilli · 24/01/2017 13:31

They have probably got a boring, exhausting minimum wage job, its cold and then you complain about the noodle, i think its a bit OTT to complain about it, no harm was done

Pinkiepie1985 · 24/01/2017 13:31

Yes YABU. No harm done, I thought you were going to say they'd stolen something from the car or scratched it from the title!