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Well, a few months ago, I was trying to be a helpful husband and get some of the kids out of the house to give my wife some time.

Any husband's been there before?

Yeah, maybe one or two of us.

But I was trying to give my wife a bit of an opportunity to pack for a trip that we had,

so I decided to take my older daughter Ray to the car wash.

And I was like, man, she is going to love this.

Like two-year-old lights, soap will blast Moana.

She's going to come alive.

Like, this is going to be amazing for her.

So I've got her in the car in the car, we're pulling up to the car wash. I'm hyping it up, like, Ray, you're going to love this. This is going to be so much fun. And as we pull up to the car wash, it's hitting me for the first time what a car wash might feel like as a two-year-old who's never been to a car wash before. Have you ever thought about that?

Me neither. for the first time what a car wash might feel like as a two-year-old who's never been to a car wash

before. Have you ever thought about that? Me neither. And as we were pulling in to this dark cave,

the car pressed forward and you hear these thuds against the car. There are strobing lights.

There is fog on the windows. There is loud. You can no longer hear Moana. It is pitch black, except for the occasional strobe that gets in your eye. And so my daughter, Ray, is freaking out. And she's like, I want my dad-da! Like she is squealing. She is crying.

And so I'm, as her father, just like, hey, get over it, kid. We're at the car wash. No, of course not. I'm like, come here. So I'm like trying to crawl into the backseat. I'm unbuckling her while the car is moving through this car wash. And just trying to maneuver. So I finally get her to the front seat. The car wash is almost over by this point.

And I get her in the front, I get her calm down a little bit and then she turns around to

the front window and what does she see a giant rotating obstacle plunging itself towards the car

and as your father I know that this thing is meant to stop and clean the car. But she doesn't know that. What she sees

is a giant object plunging towards her that has no sign of stopping. And so for me, as her dad,

I'm just sitting there like, look, kid, I messed up. And she is burying her head in my chest,

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