People are pigs. I can tell you that. They're so nasty."
Chris Wilson and his crew at Detail Depot are accustomed to finding loose change in the cars they get scrupulously clean both inside and out. But a few coins are nothing compared to the bag of cash one worker found under the spare tire of a Cadillac.
“This guy brought in a white Cadillac and my guy came over and said he’d found $600 underneath the spare tire,” Wilson says. “We clean from bumper to bumper, so one guy might spend six hours hours on one car. He really didn’t notice the bag until he was putting things back.
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“When I told the customer, he said he’d had no idea. It was his mother’s car and she had recently passed away. The nice thing is he split the money with my guy. I thought that was really cool.”