I get by with a little help from my grandson...

For years I took my car to the local car wash and I remember walking in to pay but first stopping to browse the 5,000 different kinds of air fresheners and 50,000 other neat things for sale…
Some of my favorites:
• 51% of the price of a dozen air fresheners…such a deal, eh? I remember buying only one once with a colorful rainbow motif; when my daughters saw it hanging on my rear view mirror they told me to get rid of it or hang it off the turn signal so no one would think I was…different…I had no idea what the rainbow stood for...I thought about how often they embarrassed me and I never said a word…
• Half off a ‘classic’ shoe polish box with carrying handle, like I want to carry it to the office, with three different flavors of polish, and buffing brush…
• 25% off a ‘classic’ shoe stand for the closet that could hold 20 pairs of shoes and can be assembled without tools…
• Beautiful pictures of soft leather shoes called Shoe-be-Doo’s, important in allowing mature feet to breathe…that’s exactly what the sign said; hard to forget…the shoes all looked like they were made for Italian tap dancers…
Friday Freebies:
1. A card section with special offers like 100 free B & W business cards from Staples with the offer expiring on Saturday…
2. A free Crest toothpaste kit from Oprah’s TV network when you filled out a survey after watching her show but you had to be a woman…
3. Buy one waffle and get one free at the Waffle Shoppe with coupon expiring Saturday…
• A nice section of paperback books that always caught my attention; including John Grisham, Harry Potter and a classic section of books by famous dead authors like Alexander Dumas (The Count of Monte Christo), the Bronte Sisters, Robert Lewis Stevenson and Herman Melville.
• A deserted shoe shine stand was on the wall next to the check out counter…I’ve been there dozens of times but I’ve never seen the shoe shine guy…I thought a few times about getting a Bronte Sister book to browse on the stand until my car was done, but I never did. Now I’m too cheap to buy a car wash and I do a better job and it’s more fun when I wash it in my driveway with my 4 year old grandson Elijah. When we're done washing we sit in the back of the car (SUV) and eat cookies, drink milk and read our books...