PapillionBusinesses.com Interview with Jeremy Eickman  and Keagan Glazebrook  of Tommy’s Express Car Wash Papillion, Part Two

Tommy’s of Papillion has an event coming up!

Keagan Glazebrook: Our event coming up, Tunnel of Terror. We’re very excited for that.

Jeremy Eickman: It’s our second year of doing this.

Keagan Glazebrook: You can talk about that.

Jeremy Eickman: So the Tunnel of Terror is a really fun event that I’ve done in several different locations before I was able to be a partner in this one. So we do a two-day typical event, but we close our car wash about 6:30. Normally we’re open till 9:00. So we close at 6:30, then we reopen at 7 for a specific event. We do wash your car, but we do offer a lot more than that. We offer a lot of screams and scares that go along with it. We bring in a lot of people who like to volunteer, but obviously we have our employees on as well. We’re all dressed up in, I will say, scary costumes. This is not Lego man walking around. This is Scary Clown and the Grim Reaper, and we’re going to scare you. It’s a true scary event, very similar to like a haunted house type event.

We slap your window a little bit. We touch your car, we’ll jump out at you and scare you, but you get to stay in the safety of your own vehicle, so it’s not like you having to walk around in certain haunted houses.

Keagan Glazebrook: Unless you leave your doors unlocked.

Jeremy Eickman: We do have a sign that says “Leave your doors unlocked. We may open your door.” So yeah. But we’re not going to touch anybody or go, you know, like, “Boo!” But we are going to scare your kids or you. And usually we’re always positioned in areas that are dark, and you might not recognize us and all of a sudden somebody will pop out at you. It’s a frightful 10 minutes, 15 minutes, roughly, depending on how long our line is. It could take even longer to get through the whole event, but you do go through the car wash, so you end up leaving with a very clean car.

Oh, so there’s water in the sprays…

Jeremy Eickman: Everything’s still going on, yes. We do get covered in soap while we’re in there, so we don’t have to take a bath at night when we get home. So we do offer that, but then in addition to that we give everybody a free month. Even if you’re an existing member, you get a free unlimited membership month, which basically means you’re getting a $40 membership for the $25 entry fee. So you’re getting half off if you’re an existing member on your next month, or if you’re not a member, you’re getting a free month just for coming to an event. You can’t go to a haunted house and get any takeaway like that that we’re going to offer here.

So you do that, and then you have get to enjoy the experience but without the Halloween.

Jeremy Eickman: Without the Halloween, yeah, unless you want to come back the next night. But you do have to pay for a second night. We do charge everybody, even if you’re an existing member. But like I mentioned, we do give that member a full 30 days for free the next month as well. So people can take advantage of that even if they’re a member. They do get the scares, and we do give candy away. We do have a candy station at the end of the event so the kids can decompress a little bit and they can get a Reese’s or a Snickers. We give away good candy too. None of that cheap stuff. We’re giving away the good chocolate. So the dentist shouldn’t be happy with us next month.

So, any question you wish I would have asked?

Jeremy Eickman: No, I think we probably went through everything. We’re really excited that you came. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much for doing this. I’ve been looking forward to this interview.

Visit Tommy’s Express Car Wash In Papillion on 25 and 26 October between 7-10 pm for a haunted car wash.

Tommy’s Express Car Wash
1402 S. Washington St.
Papillion, NE 68046
(402) 205-0730