It was a shop that advised the car be given a thorough dousing. It was a mess. Trails of rusty water stripes in the splash pans, dripping from the electrical conduit, floor boards soaked.
There are people who think all that noise and activity indicate hard work being done. Me, quietly removing caked on evidence of the ages in the manner of an archeologist, would be and has been, called lazy by some. Their perception, their reality, as the annoying man said.
I am a Navy spit shine shoe polisher. When I taught my wife to shine my shoes she was amazed at the light, gentle method. She was raised to think it was hard men's work. She had to relearn so much in those first few years, well, I guess she still is.