Candles and car washes

12.24.00
: I think it would be cool if they made candles that lasted a tremendously long amount of time. Plus, it would be great if the candles had some sort of self-arresting mechanism such that you could light the candle and then go to bed, knowing that after a half- hour or so, it would shut itself off. That would be neat, and I think that more people would light candles before they went to bed if the candles did things like that.

12.23.00
: I bet the people who pre-wash cars in a car wash have a favorite car that they like to wash. The guy who pre-washed our car today said that his favorite was old VW Bugs. I would think that if I was washing cars like that, I would enjoy boxy minivan type vehicles. But then again, I can see the guy's point of view, because those Bugs are tiny.

The car wash that we went to also had a guy who hand-dried our car. Naturally, I wondered what their favorite type of car would be, too. I'd probably have to go with size alone on this one. Then I got to thinking - I bet there are certain cars that both the washers and the driers like. I wish I could be there when that happens, because I could just imagine them giving each other high-fives in the air or something like that.