Dog Washing: We were duped

A nice lady who works with Forrest was selling fund raising tickets for her child's 4-H group. The tickets were for a self serve dog washing place. Forrest bought two tickets thinking that the 4-H kids would be doing the washing. He was wrong. We donned the aprons and scrubbed, dried, and brushed our two big dogs. The kids were just sweeping up hair and rinsing out the tubs. We did all the hard work. I've taken the dogs to this place before so I knew it was hard work. This was Forrest's first time. An hour later with our dogs still damp we straggled out covered in dog hair and sweat. Forrest swears that he'll never grumble again about the price of taking the dogs to a groomer at Petco. Our Husky mix has such a heavy coat it takes a whole day for her to be washed, dried, and completely brushed out. Her bill is $60.00. Add almost $40 for the Lab and tax and a trip to the groomer for us runs more than $100. We paid $40 this time and we did all the work. The dogs are exhausted after their ordeal. Me too.