Squeegee Nation
| Remember 'squeegee kids'? They may still exist in your town, but I haven't seen any since the early '90s. The '80s were probably their heyday in the US. Squeegeeing was an especially aggressive sort of panhandling practiced at busy urban intersections where a kid armed with a bucket of filthy water and a squeegee would dash out into the street when the light was red, splash some water on your windshield, made perfunctory wiping motions with the squeegee to streak up the windshield nicely, and then demand/beg a 'payment' for the 'service' they had rendered. Of course the level of aggressiveness and the quality of the wipe varied wildly, but this was the basic mode of operation. A squeegee-intersection was sort of like a bandit's tollbooth - pay the price or face the unpleasant consequences ranging from vague guilt to physical damage to your car. |
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