Posted on 09/10/2019 12:01:46 PM PDT by C19fan
As if Baltimore doesn’t have enough problems on its hands, it seems that they’ve still been unable to get the epidemic of “squeegee kids” under control. In case you’re not familiar with this phenomenon, gangs of younger people (not all of whom are actually “children” by the way) show up at city intersections with traffic lights carrying buckets of presumably soapy water and squeegees. The deal is that if they run up to a stopped car that is trapped in traffic at the light and wash the windshield, they expect the driver to give them money.
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“gas stations would squeegee your windshield, check your oil and washer fluid while pumping your gas.”
My first job was pumping gas. The mechanic would work in the lift bay and I ran around helping the customers.
When approaching Little Italy on E.Baltimore or President St., the young lads are approaching vehicles. My demeanor lets them know to bypass my vehicles...
Cops are generally not around. A couple of decades ago, there was a cop at every intersection in the Baltimore central business district. There would direct traffic during rush hours and around the Inner Harbor there would be two or more at every intersection. That’s back when there were white police commissioners and mayors not afraid to let the cops maintain order, eat red meat and crack a few sculls. As Steely Dan sang, those days are gone forever, over a long time ago.
So if you just keep your window up and don’t pay, do they damage your car? if not, you get a free window cleaning.
Likewise. I even remember seeing one attendant pump gas while another took care of the windshield and checking the oil level.
Really, they were around Memorial Stadium? I don’t remember them.
We used to come in from the west, down Liberty Road/Liberty Heights Avenue, then pick up Northern Parkway to York Road to get to the stadium. We usually parked in one of the residential neighborhoods a few blocks away, so maybe we avoided those guys.
If you do not pay them you ran the chance of one of them messing with your wipers.
We visited during the July 4th weekend. The “kids” start slopping up the windshield and expect money. It’s pathetic. Baltimore is a sh*thole. The Aquarium and Harbor was nice but I may never go there again. Most of Eastern Maryland is ghetto and illegal third world. D.C. is quite the sh*thole also outside of Federal property and exclusive neighborhoods.
It is common for them to swarm tourist cars and make a mess of your windshield for a quarter.
To be fair, they are just poor kids trying to make a buck.
I was the guy who did it. Two of the three. When I worked at a station, drivers had never heard of washer fluid.
This has been going on for umpteen years. I can remember heading out of Fells Point on the weekends, or leaving night classes at UB, the little boogers would accost you at a stoplight. There were always 3 or 4 together, sometimes a couple of them on bikes. They’d scream and bang the handle into your car. It might be “teens” now but I remember a lot of them being young — much too young to be roaming that late at night. I never once saw a cop anywhere in the vicinity doing a thing about it.
What about your blinker fluid?
Remember the Purple Martin gas stations? Guys dressed head to toe in purple and they did it all......windshield, check your oil and tire pressures, pump the gas. And gas was a whole lot cheaper back then!
The truth is that they do not clean your windows. They put dirty, scummy water on your windows and rub it around a little.
It is harder to see after than it was before.
I remember it also. And they gave free maps.
No problem. I watched the U2B vid on how to refill it.
You ever notice the squeegee water at self-service gas stations...?
Depends on the gas station. Some are OK … some are nearly mud.
I generally don’t use the stuff.
I live just outside the city limits, but inside the beltway. I work and worship downtown. The squeegee kids are a real problem. And they are a threat.
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