For reasons I don’t completely understand, Centennial Nissan in Charlottetown has just opened an on-premises carwash. And it’s not one of those new-age touchless ones, either: it has real 1976-style spinning brushes that attack the dirt off your vehicle.

By far the biggest innovation, though, is that the vacuums beside the carwash—vacuums that have the power of a jet engine—are free to use, on the honour system.

I now have a very clean car.