# Bikini car washes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 8, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129 "2015-02-08T16:02:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/61 "2015-02-10T21:46:18Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#):
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> That’s a joke, ah say, that’s a joke, son.
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#):
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> And a [pretty old one too](http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/windshield.asp).
Damn kids don’t appreciate the classics.
And get off my lawn!!
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/62 "2015-02-10T22:17:19Z")
I have only let people wash my car for charity a few times in my entire life, and in those cases, the kids were wearing t-shirts and shorts, nothing that was particularly arousing.
The only time I have ever actually SEEN an actual charity car wash run by teenage girls in bikinis, I avoided it. I’d have felt like a perverted old lecher if I took part in it. Even if the charity in question was a worthy one, I’d rather just give them some money without them showing off any flesh.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/63 "2015-02-11T02:42:49Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#):
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> And if you were the local paper I’m sure you would have gotten the photo. But you weren’t the news. You were the “news.”
_Au contraire._ I worked for _two_ local papers, free-lance, at the time. I was not only the “news,” I was “featured articles.” This was before most news outlets had web sites of any substance, so I made my own. It was up to me where the content went.
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### Author:  [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/64 "2015-02-11T02:55:16Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> _Au contraire._ I worked for _two_ local papers, free-lance, at the time. I was not only the “news,” I was “featured articles.” This was before most news outlets had web sites of any substance, so I made my own. It was up to me where the content went.
…but you weren’t shooting for those newspapers when you asked to take their photo, were you? And even if you were: who cares? You asked, they said no. This happened years ago. Thats quite a long time to hold a grudge against jumpy girl.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/65 "2015-02-11T02:58:06Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#):
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> …but you weren’t shooting for those newspapers when you asked to take their photo, were you?
Yes, I was. Did you read the part where I said I gave them my card?
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### Author:  [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/66 "2015-02-11T03:09:18Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> Yes, I was. Did you read the part where I said I gave them my card?
…did you read the part where I said “even if you were: who cares?”
Why do you care?
You asked them if they would pose for a photo, they said no.
For most people in the world, thats the end of the story.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/67 "2015-02-11T03:10:01Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> If they didn’t want to be seen in bikinis, why did they have the carwash in the first place?
HOnestly, your attitude comes across as kind of creepy. Start and finish, they didn’t want their picture taken. Maybe they weren’t entirely comfortable being out there in bikinis in the first place, and your question raised their hackles. Who knows? Who cares? They made their decision, and then it’s up to you how much you respect it.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/68 "2015-02-11T03:22:44Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#):
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> For most people in the world, thats the end of the story.
Then let’s make it the end of this one. I have video to process.
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### Author:  [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/69 "2015-02-11T03:27:45Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> HOnestly, your attitude comes across as kind of creepy. Start and finish, they didn’t want their picture taken. Maybe they weren’t entirely comfortable being out there in bikinis in the first place, and your question raised their hackles. Who knows? Who cares? They made their decision, and then it’s up to you how much you respect it.
And he did respect it…
Didn’t fully understand it and got a little pissed maybe, but so what?
He is allowed to do that isn’t he?
Bottom line - he respected their decision.
What does it matter how he felt about it?
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/70 "2015-02-11T03:58:28Z")
> [@bengangmo](#):
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> And he did respect it…
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> Didn’t fully understand it and got a little pissed maybe, but so what?
> He is allowed to do that isn’t he?
Sure he is, and I’m allowed to think it’s creepy, and you’re allowed to think that’s pointless, and I’m allowed to think that’s obvious, and on and on and on…
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### Author:  [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/71 "2015-02-11T06:08:42Z")
I’ve worked with some biker charity that does a bikini-motorcycle wash.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/72 "2015-02-11T11:51:36Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#):
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> I’ve worked with some biker charity that does a bikini-motorcycle wash.
Typical biker. Gets all heated up over a motorcycle in a bikini.
😃
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/73 "2015-02-11T13:50:37Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> A _problem_? You don’t see an _advantage_ in this?
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> I take photos and more recently, videos, of a wide variety of local events. One of the intentions is to preserve the pictures in perpetuity. You betcha. Many of the subjects of the pix have since died, others have grown up, and places have changed. When I wrote a 150 year history book, pix from many sources made the book more appealing than merely text. You may not be aware of how many people have praised my records of people and events, and as time goes on, it will probably be more important than now.
It seems like it would be nice if they’d been OK with it, but in the grand scheme of things, are we any worse off because we don’t have photos of a bikini car wash? It’s like getting upset because, say, the organizers of a kitty cat fashion show wouldn’t let you take photos. Sure, it would have been quirky/whimsical, but of all the things that are being lost to history, does anyone really care?
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/74 "2015-02-12T02:58:13Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> Hi **Gaudere**! Long time, no see, how are things?
Things are great;I have recently gotten a house, puppy and husband, in that order! I’ve always been lurking but just wasn’t posting.
> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> 1. Lots of 13 year old girls are going to be “interesting to look at in a bikini” from the perspective of an adult man. They just are. They’re young, pretty, and curve in all the right places.
Thirteen seems quite young for it to be totally cool for a grown man to interested in their “curves”, discretely or not. For the men who like looking at young girls, what makes a certain girl acceptable to check out versus not? I’m sure they wouldn’t think it OK to “find interesting” a toddler’s legs or butt like they would these 13 year olds. When a girl has at least an A cup and therefore has curves? On onset of first menses so she could have a baby?
> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> 1. They definitely **shouldn’t** be used as a draw for grown men to pay money to see them. That’s really, _really_ gross.
It’s OK for men to find 13 year olds interesting to look at, they just can’t pay money so that they can do so? I mean, if there wasn’t some sort of benefit to having the girls in a bikini, a “13 year old boys in shorts” or “fully clothed car wash” seems like it would be an equal draw.
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### Author:  [@The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Joker_and_the_Thief)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/75 "2015-02-12T03:37:40Z")
> [@Gaudere](#):
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> Thirteen seems quite young for it to be totally cool for a grown man to interested in their “curves”, discretely or not. For the men who like looking at young girls, what makes a certain girl acceptable to check out versus not? I’m sure they wouldn’t think it OK to “find interesting” a toddler’s legs or butt like they would these 13 year olds. When a girl has at least an A cup and therefore has curves? On onset of first menses so she could have a baby?
The usual answer is that girls become sexual acceptable (that’s not the right term, but you get the idea) once they reach puberty, regardless of at what age that happens.
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/76 "2015-02-13T03:44:52Z")
> [@The\_Joker\_and\_the\_Thief](#):
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> The usual answer is that girls become sexual acceptable (that’s not the right term, but you get the idea) once they reach puberty, regardless of at what age that happens.
I know you’re not necessarily answering for yourself, here. But I have to say, puberty for girls starts on average around 10, with most girls starting growing breasts before 10. Some by 8! It’s not that unusual to start menstruating as an 11 year old. So then it’s cool for grown men to “find interesting” 10 year old or earlier girls? That’s a fifth grader! I mean, is there any age where a girl could have “curves in all the right places” and it’s still not cool to be checking them out?
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### Author:  [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2015, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-car-washes/712129/77 "2015-02-13T07:55:07Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#):
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> And a [pretty old one too](http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/windshield.asp).
Oh, _hell_ yes. 😃 🆒
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