Handwash

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, after closing hours, a strange voice would occasionally announce over Handwash’s intercom: ‘Your vehicle is clean and ready… but don’t forget to check your mirrors!’ Employees soon realized it wasn’t their imagination playing tricks. One day, an old neighbor drove in with his car covered in mud. Afterwards, he sheepishly asked if everything was alright. The attendant just smiled and said, 'Don’t worry, sir, our night janitor knows how to get anything clean!'

2. At midnight, when Handwash was empty and dark, a soft humming started coming from one of the cleaning machines. A delivery driver passing by swore he saw an old man emerge from inside, wiping down the walls with a cloth. The next morning, the manager found a neatly folded hand towel on the floor near the machine. Written on it in shaky script were the words: ‘Thank you for the cleanest car I’ve ever had.’

3. One morning, a delivery driver asked aloud: ‘Who keeps leaving handprints on my windshield?’ Soon after, an old man in a tattered hat emerged from behind the car and sheepishly said, 'Sorry about that, sonny! I thought it was mine.' Turned out he had been washing his own hands there for years without realizing it. The delivery driver shook his head with a smile, knowing now who left those prints every day.

4. At dawn, when Handwash was just starting its day, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar: every cleansed window had a perfect circle of water left behind. Curious, he approached and saw that each circle was exactly the same size as his coffee cup’s saucer. Turns out, it was an old hand who’d retired but kept coming back to leave his mark—literally. A friendly neighborhood retiree with a love for precision and coffee.