ANSWERS: 42
  • Your car is your personal property. Tell him to keep his hands off. If you find a single paint scratch due to his wash job, have him charged with vandalism.
  • I would thank him. But it seems like you don't want him to wash it...so I would say, "I appreciate your help and thoughtfulness, but I would prefer to wash it myself (or not he he)."
  • Sounds weird... is the neighbor mentally ill and obsessive about cleanliness to the point of washing other people's cars? maybe you could thank him and suggest that he get a job at a car wash where his talents would be sought after. Maybe he is romantically interested in you and wants to do something nice for you, he just wishes you drove a cleaner car so that one particular quality of yours wouldn't keep pissing him off. Maybe he doesn't know it's your car he's washing. Do the two of you drive the same car? Investigate further and respond based on the data you gather.
  • hell tell him thank-you and ask him if next time he wouldn't mind waxing it too.
  • go out there all flustered and irritated telling him that he just ruined your highly sensitive dirt test and will now have to completely start over.
  • I wouldn't say anything, but as soon as he's finished ,I'd go and drive it somewhere really muddy and then come back and park up just like normal.
  • Thank him and say that it won't be necessary in the future. You'd rather handle it in your own time, even though it gets pretty dirty. "I know you meant well, but I have a special process I need to take this car through." (namely - doing it yourself, but you don't have to tell him that <g>).
  • I would thank him for his hard work, but that you have you're own way of doing it. Tell him you appreciate the consideration, but maybe ask for permission next time. Kill him with kindess is what my mother always said. Not always easy to do, but usually works.
  • It's so hard to know someone's frame of mind nowadays! People are attacking others for absolutely no reason at all. I would advise that you not approach your neighbor and call the police instead. His comments about your car while washing it seems to say that something isn't quite right.
  • haha...Ohhh man I'm sorry but I laughed out loud when I read this one! Just because I wish I had a neighbour like that to do our 4WD vehicle after an active weekend! haha. I think I'd lean out the window and ask him if he was going to clean the inside next...haha. good luck with him.
  • Get my family to bring their dirty cars over too.
  • I would thank him for it and apologize for making his neighborhood look lousy by not doing it myself and tell him I'd try to remember to do it more often in the future. Why make enemies? After all, even if he is excessively concerned about how the neighborhood looks, he could have just waited till two AM and written "Wash Me" in the dust, possibly scratching the paint. There are enough real offenses to get offended at without taking offense at what may be a legitimate criticism of your own behavior. Though in his place I would have asked the homeowner's association to do something like "set a policy."
  • I would simply thank him, and offer to let him do it again next month. Take pictures of him doing it so that if any damage is done you can get an insurance settlement from him.
  • Well, like Darryl, I have friends who are very particular about their cars. If that is the case with you, then you should probably let him know that he has over-stepped a boundary. However, if someone washed my car for me, I would pay no attention to the grumbling and just consider it a bonus!!! I like the idea that there are still random acts of kindness happening out there, even if he complains about it, his intentions could be good.
  • I would wait until he finished, because I dont want a half-washed car, then tell him not to let that happen again, my car, and I will wash it from now on.
  • I'd ask him if he was going to polish his brass balls after he was finished with my car.
  • ha ha thats jus fab lol
  • Maybe I would go over and wash his car to see how he would like it if someone decided his was dirty.
  • Look. A single car wash costs about $8-12 where I come from. Fools come in all colors. Thank him and say, "same time next week"? And then sue him as soon as you see a scratch.
  • if it really was dirty i would just laugh and be like ayyy, thanks a lot man, i was just about to do that. lol
  • just let him wash it. Hopefully he does a good job.
  • You could say, "Thank you."
  • Call the cops on the sonofab*tch! Really!
  • I would say thank you!!! It is pretty dirty right now and I was actually going to get it washed tomorrow but hell if he wants to do it he can, one less thing I have to get done tomorrow :)
  • Mudding anyone? Then you can stand in the window laughing hysterically while he looks at you.
  • Maybe he's OCD - maybe he can't help himself because it makes his skin crawl to see dirt? That sounds more like a prison than a life. You can bet that the person he is talking to isn't listening to his words so much as thinking how weird the guy is and how he has completely overstepped a social boundary. Is he an old guy? I mean stuck indoors with no life? You could knock on his door and thank him for getting to the job before you could do it yourself (that always throws people who expect a war), tell him what a busy life you have (if you really want to hurt his feelings) and ask if he'd be interested in doing that on a weekly basis maybe for a few dollars. If there's any malice in him then by the time you are done he will close the door realising he has just gone from snob to employee. Um....IS IT disgustingly dirty? Make sure you are not feeling ashamed because that will intensify your feelings and make it hard to act cool.
  • I would take a bottle of Turtle Wax out to him, and tell him to leave the bottle on the porch when he's done.
  • This is a pretty good question. I like it. How shall we react to an offensive or provocative behavior ? By ignoring it ? By calling the police ? By retaliating ? By a straight recall of the rules? There is probably no best solution to such situations. By experience, I would consider it is better not to let things turning worse. What about bringing a beer to that neighbour and have a chat with him ? I wonder if such a little issue is not simply dealed with, how can manhood manage big issues like environment, warfare, justice, and so on. So, let's just try. Or isn't it worthwhile ?
  • I'd be happy that he saved me a job but a little bit creeped out too. I'd probably come down and give him a chocolate bar or packet of biscuits and thank him and say I'd been really busy and hadn't got to cleaning the car yet.
  • hahahaha, let him do it, and when he's finished give him the turtle wax so he can finish the job right!!!!
  • Sounds like a major jerk to me. Get in the car when he is done, do not say anything to him (like you didn't notice it was clean) and take it four-wheeling or get it really, really dirty and park it right back in the same place. How many times do you think he will wash it? :-)
  • I would ask how much he would charge me to do that every week! I mean, you are going to have a clean car now!
  • this is the weirdest thing ive ever heard! then again i live in a rural area where neighbors are more like people i nvr see, never want to and live at least 500 ft away... but what is ur relationship with this person? is he someone u never talk to, someone u hate, someone thats alot bigger than you making u reluctant to telling him to keep his hands off ur car, say hi every once in awhile, babysits ur dog when ur away...yea need some info like that
  • Go out there next time and start throwing mud all over it, I'd like to know his reaction to that. No, wait, don't do that, that's a dumb idea.
  • Ask him if he'll polish your shoes and wash your doorstep too.
  • Well if he is doing a good job, no problem. Sounds a little OCD to me. If your house needs cleaning invite him over, you may get a two for one special. lol
  • Swallow your pride and indignation, and say "Thank you."  
  • Oh by gosh!!! Has he got some balls...touching someone elses car. I mean if they are doing it like a favour to be nice thats not so bad...but if he's doing it and bagging you for having a dirty car then he has over stepped basic respect for others property and whats his problem with dirty cars anyway. I'd start trimming his hedges or something...
  • Am I the only one here who can identify with that guy? I do NOT wash people's cars for them. But it does disgust me sometimes to see people with very nice things (cars, boats, toys of one kind or another) who simply neglect, abuse and don't care for them. For example, when I walk through a marina I see incredibly lovely -- and expensive! -- luxury boats of all kinds, often tied up with clothesline rope, terrible knots that won't hold if strained, polyethylene ski rope (so slippery that knots don't hold well), and ragged, worn dock lines that have the strength of baling twine on parcels. In other words, garbage. No, I DO NOT supply adequate dock lines and re-tie people's boats for them, but I'm often tempted. In any case, here I would probably ignore the behavior, at least for now. The man could be OCD or unbalanced to the point that he actually took action that way, and he appears to be upset. Later, when he's calm and you see him again you might ask him very calmly what prompted him to act. And consider thanking him. After all, even if he DOES cause some minor and inadvertent damage, he's taking more care of your car's surface than you are.
  • Tell him you'll give him five bucks an hour, as long as he's using a decent chamois cloth and hasn't scratched it.
  • I would think that's kind of "nervy", but maybe he thinks he's being nice. I would tell him, "Thanks, but I like to take care of that myself."
  • he means well, i guess..but i'd leave as soon as he finished and find the nearest mud holes....

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