A 16-year-old car is a slice of history; excavating its contents is like going on an archaeological dig. Here’s what I came across when I went to shovel out the Dog Chariot before forking it over as a trade-in.
- A disintegrating Ziplock bag filled with quarters, for use in pay phones
- A dime dated 1971
- A fistful of city and state road maps. MAPS! Remember those?
- One nonfunctional flashlight, sealed shut by battery corrosion
- Two tire gauges, never used; one dates to the Early Devonian
- One wing corkscrew for emergency wine bottles
- Two pair of nonRx shades
- Several emery boards
- Half a roll of Rolaids, age unknown
- One forgotten comb
- One rarely used hairbrush
- One fold-up umbrella
The new car has TWO big storage compartments between the front seats. These will more than accommodate the junk I carry. The van, alas, had nothing to speak of in that line, and so I had two flat cardboard boxes and a basket in which I carried around things like shades, antacids, a notepad and pen, packet of glasses cleaner, junk, junk, junk, and more junk.
It’s going to be so tidy inside that car, it’ll look like…like it belongs to someone else! 😀
Have you ever excavated a car? What did you find in it?