Really, I just meant to wax the van!
While spending time with my family, I was reminded of an old story. I had turned 16 and I was trying to pass my driver’s license test. It would eventually take me four times to pass but that is another story. I was excited and I wanted to do something nice for the family minivan, and wanted to thank my parents for letting me drive the minivan. I decided I was going to wax the van. The whole story seems innocent enough at this point. Except I have to confess I don’t think I’d ever really waxed a vehicle much at this point in my life and had only really every seen my dad wax his motorcycle on sunny Sunday afternoons. I could have asked what the right kind of wax was, but of course I did not. I reached for where I knew my dad kept his motorcycle wax. What I grabbed wasn’t normal car wax. What I grabbed was something called “Blue Corral”. This wax was meant to only wax things by inch squares because...