As the sun slowly wakes and begins to turn everything golden, San Diego twinkles with soft colors- the city awake for yet another day. Alex at least has clients to call upon once it’s daytime. While most are putting on their jacket to go to work, appear in presents, and put their social behavior for another day to bed. Alex’s life is not your average 9 to 5 day. His working day is a happy jumble of polished faces and banter so clever it makes coworkers’ chat sound tame. Today means buckets together; brush into this corner; I wonder if she’s kept any surprises in the refrigerator for me (like a banana or soda) who’s to count? learn more?
“At 7:00 a. m., and another dust storm begins” thought Alex, retrieving the nozzle from his detailer’s rig. With his “liquid miracle”, coffee strong enough to raise the dead and as bitter as a bathroom plunger, he sets out for high-toned suburban saloon-and his next victim. Upon arriving at Mrs. Thompson’s house, Alex begins to unload his detailing equipment and flash an expansive smile. “This one’s going to be a real corker,” he says to no one in particular. With a blend of precision, enthusiasm, casual fronting–all laced together by a picturesque inability to take himself too seriously–Alex attacks nylon shoelace belts and heart-shaped mud throwings as “Tchaikovsky” goes just so “bang, just like they did it in his day.”every job contains its surprises; timing apparently plays its part too
By mid-morning, the San Diego sun is bright and warmly embracing golden rays of light bounce off newly polished car hoods in pure joy. “They ought to pay me in gold dust,” Alex sang, dabbing away a bead of that exact substance dripping from his ear. And, with that final wiping stroke of the oversized rag revealing skies above not of the born-lustrous pearl pink every woman desires but as they are at present –a beautiful blue where nothing seems able to take such hue but out for the day *with no hours of work ahead–another successful day in the life of this San Diego mobile auto detailing pro has finished.