Car Wash Fund Raisers 

 Why you annoy me:

• Every time any group of teenagers gets desperate for cash the first idea that pops into their heads is “Let’s do a car wash!”  Negative ten points for originality.  Just seeing yet another car washing fund raiser going on annoys me.
• Your car washes are jokes.  You lazily cover the car with soap and then rinse it off.  Wow, thanks, I could have done that myself in 5 minutes.  If I am paying for a car wash, I want quality.  I want good soap, lots of elbow grease put into scrubbing off anything on the car, I want my rims cleaned perfectly and shined, I want my tires blacked, and I want a fresh coat of wax.  Plus, I like the inside detailed and vacuumed.  That is worth $40 to me.  If teenage fund raisers offered that service I would gladly donate $40 to their cause.  Instead they offer sorry ass washes that aren’t even worth $5.  No thanks.
• Your advertising methods are ridiculous.  Every time I see a carwash being advertised its some lame ass dude holding a sign that says, “OMG CARWASH FUND RAISER!!!!!11”  That’s annoying in and of itself, but even more annoying is the missed detail.  Everyone with half a brain knows that the way you get people to go to a teenage car wash is with girls in bikinis.  You think the promise of a substandard wash is going to lure them in?  The person holding the signs on the road should be your best looking girl, and she should be in a bikini, no argument.  Also, it wouldn’t hurt to put “cheerleading fund raiser” on the sign either, regardless of what your group actually is.  Before you ask, no I’m not a saying that its cool to lust after high school girls, but people do anyway.  And you want to raise money, so you have to do what you have to do.

 Possible mitigating factors:

• Sometimes the fundraiser IS a cheerleading fundraiser.  Even better, sometimes it’s a university cheerleading fundraiser.
• If you get roped into it, you are only out $5 even if the wash does suck.
• Significantly less annoying than the other method of teenage fundraising which is the “stand outside of Wal-mart and beg for money as people come out” strategy.