Mystery Solved!

My husband decided to clean our cars last weekend.  He brought out the buckets and sponges and soap but when I saw the vacuum, indicating that he also planned to clean the inside of my car, I cringed with embarrassment.  Even I don’t like to clean the inside of my car.  In fact, there are 2 situations where I will spend the $20 at one of those full service washes: when my car is SUPER messy or when there is a strange odor in the car and I’m too scared to discover the source.  I’m always humiliated to claim my vehicle when they are done cleaning it and wish I could wear a disguise to hide my true identity.  Here are some of the items that were in my car last weekend.

1.       Cheez-its, some whole, some crumbs that were smashed into the seat fibers

2.      Three finished dum-dum sucker sticks with fuzzies and dog hair stuck to the sticky end

3.      Two  McDonalds Happy Meal toys

4.      The wrapper of a band aid (at least it wasn’t the used band aid!)

5.      Tons of flashcards, most with muddy boot prints on them and bent edges

6.      Six empty water bottles

7.      A coffee mug with about a swallow of coffee left

8.      A wallet-sized picture of Tyler from 2 years ago (???)

9.      Used wipes (I don’t remember what they were used for nor do I want to know)

10.  A tube of chapstick that is missing the chapstick (hopefully it fell off vs. was eaten by the kids)

11.  Three bags in the trunk for goodwill that I forgot about

12.  An empty juice box

13.  Two pennies stuck on top of a quarter that has been adhered to the bottom of the middle console since the early 90’s.

14.  A used band aid (see #4 above)

15.  A melted blue crayon

16.  Some mystery food item in a Ziploc bag hidden under the floor mat that is so decomposed even dental records wouldn’t help identify it (see discussion of strange odor above)

And that’s not including the countless French fries, cheerios, pens and crumbs that have disappeared into the void between the seat and the middle console.  A few weeks ago I spotted a girlfriend approaching my car as I waited in the preschool drop off line and had just enough time before she arrived to strategically place my large purse over most of the disaster scene in the passenger seat and shove a Ziploc bag of half eaten apple wedges………. under the floor mat.  Mystery solved!