Team Car Wash

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

The team car wash fund raiser is always on Saturday of Father's Day weekend. It is an all day event, starting at 8 and ending at 4 or when the last car is washed. The team kicks off at 6 with a short one hour practice, followed by breakfast donated by parents. The car wash is held about a mile from the pool on a busy main road where most of the shopping is, strategically right across from the Walmart.

In years past, the guys did the washing and the girls did the "marketing," which mainly meant wearing their swimsuits and holding signs to get cars to come in. As an added draw, at least a few of the ladies on the team would change from their team suits to more revealing bikinis, a few pushing the limit of appropriate. Most of the guys would change to board shorts or pull them over their suits, a few just stayed in whatever suit they had on at practice, but those were the minority. Until this year.

The girls, who by one outnumber the guys on the team called a foul. "You guys need to drop the shorts and stay in your speedos," they demanded. "And we share jobs." The guys were pretty open to the challenge, by 8:30 all of them had returned to their swimsuits, all the guys in their team swimsuit. The next challenge was who could get the most money, guys or girls. So the team agreed the 9 to noon shift was girls on the roadside, in whatever swimsuit they wanted. From 1 to 4 was the guys, but had to be in a brief, team issue or any style. Since lunch was at noon, they agreed to share that hour, keeping it an equal three hours.

The girls had an unfair advantage, since mornings are busier, but no one raised that. It was clear by what they had brought to wear that the girls had plotted this ahead. They all changed to really skimpy bikini swimsuits. It looked like they hit a home run, in three hours they raised $630. Our best morning ever.

The guys started out slow, probably because they were not nearly as animated as the girls, and not as colorful, all in the exact same suit. By 2, Justin, the team captain had an idea. He ran to his car, grabbed a bunch of swimsuits he had in his bag, an eclectic assortment of colorful prints and cuts. Justin is our most animated and rambunctious swimmer. He switched to a really colorful narrow sided Dolfin brand suit. Three other guys also switched.

The all guy Rockettes line was probably the funniest part of the day. A string of swimsuit wearing, handsome young men swinging legs was sure to get attention.

It was close. The guys raised $590. They committed to the same challenge next wash. What a fun day for the team.

[dm106]

I'd love to go to that car wash!

[solarguy]

A couple of years ago, the kids were doing a car wash by me. There were a couple of young guys out there in their speedos. I think they got plenty of people to get their cars washed because of what they were wearing!