Driver - Your Windscreen Is Dirty

[Bazile]

A lady with a sponge and a squeezy bottle , proceeds to 'clean' your windscreen , while you are stationary at traffic lights .

She then holds her hand out for her payment
Do you place a pound coin in her hand or keep your windows wound up ?

Several drivers this morning were taking the second option .

[spathiphyllum]

Second option lol

[Eleena]

You didn't ask to have them cleaned Baz, keep the Windows shut.

[Mamyalynne]

I only cleaned it last night.

[Baldric]

I would switch the wipers on as soon as she started, just to help her out you understand, and certainly no payment.

[Bazile]

Do you think some drivers give the go ahead , but then refuse to pay ?
Very likely , i think - lol

[Eleena]

It's begging with intimidation.

[spathiphyllum]

Baldric i actually agree. Why is someone touching my windscreen whilst my car is on an whilst i'm at lights? Dangerous if you ask me.

[spathiphyllum]

No the issue for me Baz isn't payment, but more the invasion.

[Eleena]

I certainly wouldn't give them the idea to go ahead.

[DarceyK123]

I thought this died out years ago, havent seen this since the 1980s.

[BANANASPLITS]

Didn't realise people still do this

[bainbrig]

You mean-spirited bunch of ******s!

Do you really think some woman would willingly march p and down in traffic trying to clean windscreens if she wasn’t DESPERATE?

Pay up, pay up and be thankful it’s not YOU having to resort to this way of getting a few paltry pounds.

[Sqad]

Yes......I agree with bainbigg.........surely it's worth a quid.

[AuntLydia]

No I will not pay up!
Bainbrig, if someone came and cleaned your house windows then knocked on your door demanding £10 would you say' there son/luv take it" ?
Its aggressive begging and also could be linked to modern day slavery. How do you know this 'poor man/woman' will actually see any of the money given to them?

[Sqad]

AL
"How do you know this 'poor man/woman' will actually see any of the money given to them?"

I would n't care who gets the money as i have a clean windscreen for a pound......job done as they say.

[spathiphyllum]

bainbrig probably because i'd go and get a real job but i take your point ;)
As long as it aint a gritty sponge.

[spathiphyllum]

AL has a point.. .Where would it end? People wiping your bottom for pennies? Why not say no? It's my hooman right!

[AuntLydia]

Sqad that is very naive and hopefully written with tongue in cheek. Modern day slavery is rife especially in car valeting. That poor woman may have had to hand over her money and then been thrown into a shed to sleep, or worse sent out on the streets to work in the sex trade.. But hey ho -you'll have a clean windscreen.

[Rockrose]

When I lived in London I used to come across this all the time. Was happy to pay until they scammed me then I would refuse and lock my door. Tough if they cleaned the window after I said no.

[Sqad]

AL....LOL.....you have a point....but in my lifetime i have seen everything........genocide, famine, rape, sodomy, child sexual abuse, homosexuality now legal, ever town has a University for all, food banks..........so to worry about where a quid goes for a clean windscreen doesn't bother my deeper emotions too much.