A tip for fans of multitasking: whilst doing your grocery shopping in South Melbourne, you can have your car washed at The Happy Hippo Car Wash in the Spotlight Centre car park.
Grant and I had our car washed there one day and, although I didn't stick around to watch, I'm pretty sure that this is what happens: in that cage, behind the sign, is a really big hippopotamus. Blue, by the look of things. The hippopotamus opens his mouth and the people that you leave you keys with, they drive the car in to the hippo's mouth. Then he closes his mouth and swishes your car around inside, much like you do when you use Listerine. After around fifteen minutes of swishing, the hippo opens his mouth and the peeps back the car out again and park in it specially marked parking bays, awaiting your return.
I haven't quite worked out how they cleaned the inside of the car but maybe next time I'll stick around and see.
General Sumo recommends:
The Happy Hippo Car Wash
Level 1, car park of the Spotlight Centre
Corner of York and Cecil Streets, South Melbourne
I thought we were onto something new and exciting with the wash while you shop thing but it turns out that my mother-in-law has been doing it for ages back in Adelaide. Clearly, Melbourne has some ground to cover in car wash innovation. Although I'm not sure if Jan has her car cleaned by a hippo, so we may still be forward thinking in that respect.
" . . . the peeps back the car out again and park in it specially marked parking bays, awaiting your return."
ReplyDeleteYes, but do they park it like a 'tard?
No, they seem to be experienced. However, there are plenty of South Melbourne ladies-who-lunch in 4WDs to make up for that.
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