Valvoline Instant Oil Change cares about preventing breast cancer.
The automobile service center cares so much that it is helping wipe out breast cancer with eye-catching pink wiper blade replacements.
But this particular location at Harbor and West MacArthur boulevards doesn’t care so much about preventing a female employee from being exposed to skin cancer.
She did the best she could to use her “Free Smiles Inside” sign to block the sun’s rays, so much so that it was impossible to tell if she was smiling.
These were shot around 11:15 a.m. Thursday.

OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.