Misadventures in product design

[kickaha]

Took Frankenjeep up to a self-service car wash today. (Took me a couple day to find one in the area - a plethora of 'car spas', but no self-service - go figure. Ended up having to drive 40 min north to another county. :P) It's sparkly.

Here's the oddity: you know how these places have 'foaming brushes' and the like, right? Well, this one had a foaming *gun* which spat foam all over the car. Okay, that was kind of fun.

But.

The foam was multi-colored. They kept injecting a rotating palette of dye into it, so it'd be blue, then green, they yellow, then orange, red, purple, and back to blue. Cute.

Until the wind blows through the *&%($ car wash stall, and blows it all back on you. My shirt is covered with red and blue splatter. I'm *hoping* they come out in the wash.

Why, oh why, would anyone think that adding dye to a soap gun was a good idea?

Comments

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Actually, I wouldn't expect the soaps used in those places to be particularly friendly to fabrics generally; they have to be strong enough to clean off tar and other, less savory things that get deposited on cars (cf. the difference between a seagull and a Texas oil tycoon).

IOW, the dye may well be the least of your problems. :)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

You such a ray of fucking sunshine. :D

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Sorry, occupational hazard. I get paid an embarrassing amount of money to find the worst-case scenario and wrap it up in a bright blue bow.

And you love me for it. :)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Huh. I thought that was indigestion. Silly me.

:D

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, love usedta make my stomach hurt too, but it got better when I acknowledged and shared my feelings.

Go ahead, open up. It's OK. Nobody's going to judge you.

Record you and put you up on YouTube, sure. But no judging, I promise.