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Teen opens mobile shower for grimy N.D. oil workers (he built it)
Bismark Tribune ^ | September 3, 2012 | JAMES MacPHERSON

Posted on 09/06/2012 6:16:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

ALEXANDER, N.D. — It took little more than a day for 18-year-old Evan Jensen to smell opportunity in North Dakota’s booming oil patch.

....The mobile venture, called Better Showers, rolled into an RV campground in the heart of the oil patch in June. A shower costs $10, with a half-price discount for residents of the RV park where the business is located. Towels and washcloths are $1 extra. The water pressure is strong, the soap is free and there is no time limit.

The business is parked along U.S. Highway 85, the busiest two-lane highway in western North Dakota, where about 100 trucks pass by every 10 minutes. The showers are open from 4 to 11 p.m., the time when most people are getting off work.

.....He passes the time between clients cleaning the facility, playing guitar and writing letters thanking friends and relatives for graduation gifts. And he contemplates other businesses.

“I brainstorm and think of what’s in demand here,” Jensen said. “I’ve got a bunch of ideas. All it takes is guts, really.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bismarcktribune.com ...


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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Between the IRS and the EPA, that kid doesn’t stand a chance. Some government drone has his number.


41 posted on 09/06/2012 11:23:23 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

After you shour and redd up and ‘at, then you warsh the dishes.

If you want a good laugh go to Youtube and search “Pittsburgh Dad”


42 posted on 09/06/2012 11:33:03 AM PDT by almcbean
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Great job by this young man! That’s the American Spirit at work!


43 posted on 09/06/2012 11:39:00 AM PDT by Batman11 (We came for the chicken sandwiches and a Sweet Tea Party broke out!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That boy will go far!


44 posted on 09/06/2012 11:55:48 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Five story, 20 family, 3 room, tenements , in NYC’s “Little Italy”, had a small sink and an enclosed toilet in the kitchen. The one shower was in the basement of the tenement. Used by anyone in the building After going to the beach (Coney Island) the girls(teenagers) would go down to the basement to shower and the boys found a place to “peek’ into the area. This was not ancient history, it was 1970.


45 posted on 09/06/2012 12:29:36 PM PDT by capt B
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Older homes in this area have what are called “Pittsburgh Showers”. A simple spigot suspended over a drain in the middle of the basement floor.....”
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I remember our house in central Pennsylvania had one of those in the basement opposite the “coal bin” (for you “culturally deprived folks” that’s where the heating coal went when it was slid through a chute placed through the basement window). As a child, it never occurred to me that Dad used that probably because my Mom made him when he came home from work. Good idea Mom!


46 posted on 09/06/2012 5:17:24 PM PDT by House Atreides
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