Spilled food/drink in MY car? Who, ME?

i've spilled SEVERAL things in my car... all clean up fairly easy. i did have my sis apply fab protection (for cheap she works at Ford dealership) but from the myriad of posts here, even without the fabric treatment, the stuff cleans up very nicely

 

I sprayed salad + dressing all over the inside of my best girlfriend's old Corolla. We used to work in the same building and took lunches together. It was a nice day, we grabbed some grub from McD's and headed to PCH for a nice drive along the beach. She got a salad, back when they had them in the clear cup-shaped containers with a lid (the containers fit nicely in a cupholder, I might add). I added the dressing for her, then offered to shake the salad up for her too, you know, to coat the salad with the dressing.

Yeah.

I didn't put the lid on tight enough and shook with all my might. The lid flew off. Bits of dressing-covered salad and chicken went EVERYWHERE. She had to pull over so we could first stop laughing, then spend the next 30 minutes picking up inedible salad bits off the entire inside of her car (floor, seats, dashboard, windows, backseat, everywhere!)

 

LOL @ Rancid =)

The one big spill I remember was late at night, coming out of Epcot. I was carrying a to-go box of assorted chinese food, and somehow managed to spill it all over the front passenger side of my dad's nissan sentra. We spent a looong time picking out all the grains of fried rice that night =)

the reason i remember that so well is that every SINGLE time you got a little water on the floorboards up there, the whole car would start to smell like china buffet

 

LOL! Her cars have always been notably filthy on the inside. You couldn't pay me enough to lick so much as a window on the inside. I'd be willing to bet that the side of the glass that is exposed to the elements is cleaner than the inside. Along with dressing-sticky salad bits, we were also picking up bits of dirt, lint, old trash, hair, and who knows what else.

That was over 5 years ago, and we still laugh about it: "Remember the time I covered the entire inside of your car with salad?" "And we had to pull into the parking lot at the beach to clean it up?" Good times.

 

I never understood how people could actually eat while driving. That's utterly disgusting. Particularly when you touch the steering wheel or MFD with food-stained hands. It's just gross, obnoxious, and RECKLESS.

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Those people have mastered the art of steer-with-one-hand-eat-with-the-other technique. I have not mastered it. I park, then eat. Even then, I've been known to drop or spill things. And this is while not in motion!! Otherwise there's an accident waiting to happen. With both the food/drink and with other vehicles.

 

When I was ready to sell my Honda I took it in to have it detailed. I have vowed to never let a car get that bad again. I don't eat while driving any more. I haven't spilled anything. I'm a clean freak now!

 

last summer i dropped a piece of melty chocolate in the car. it ran down my shirt, landed on my jeans, then plopped itself down on the seat cover. then when i had the car parked and i turned to unbuckle my seat belt, i got chocolate from my shirt on the seat belt.

that was a disaster. whew. it all came clean though, even the light blue shirt. i will never again eat or drink anything in the car unless it is colorless! even if i did just put in a 14 hour day with no break for lunch.

i should say though, generally i'm a neat freak. i keep nothing but some CDs, a trash bag (that never gets used) and my lucky Garfield in the car.

 

Oh yeah, I had to relate this little story:

Many years ago, I had a boss that was fat, and gross.

I'll never forget walking into her sh-thole cube, and watching her type with fingers covered in Cheet-o flavoring. Apparently, she did this so often, that they letters had disappeared from her keyboard. She was truly gross, it even smelled bad when she got up from her chair, as I swear she only bathed every other day or so. I used to day dream that WWII SS soldiers would burst in and torch her cube with a flamethrower.

I'll never forget how she used to go out of her way to make sure no one saw her husband whenever he would pop in.

One day I saw precisely why...

I caught a glimpse of him in the lunch room once... It was sort of like the terminator: a ball of lightning opens up not from the future, but rather a mental institution from 1975, to reveal this extremely strange looking short fat man with a seriously out of control fro, super thick bold rimmed glasses, dirty white t-shirt, white socks with colored stripes pulled up to just about his knee caps, and sandals, with a terrible attitude.

I joke not.

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h34r:

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: is it really reckless when one can control the rate of consumption vs. the hand-eye-mouth coordination?.. :lol: ....I've never eaten a full meal behind the wheel. But occasionally, on long road trips, I gnaw on some jerky.

All the time I see some big fat bloke stuff his gob with a big mac while doing a NASCAR-style lane change. You gotta wonder what the inside of that car smells like!!!!

Oh yea, it just came to me...though I didn't spill it, I forgot about the Korean food doggy-bag (Kimchi) that I put into the back hatch of my old Aztek...it sat in the hot Florida sun for 8 hours before I figured it out

 

Or those smokers who keep their windows closed, and you can see blue smoke swirling around the cabin.

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That one never ceases to amaze me - but then, you look in the back seat and there is a child (or 2 or 3) in the car seat too!!!!!

 

oh, now THAT is nasty

 

Doh! I've had many an unfolded (or undone folded) bean burrito from Taco Bell...I learned long ago that when eating them, first I park. Then I unroll and re-roll my burrito so as not to have a, er, near-calamitous event occur. Even when eating one while parked, the gooey stuff inside just wants out and will try to find a way to do so. Usually occurs in a tear or weak tortilla spot mid-burrito.

 

Man...

How can you folks eat Taco Bell? I take one look at that stuff and start feeling nauseous. Stuff looks exactly like watered down dog crap.

I think it just disgusts me as to how everything is so automated for convenience. The way they have "caulk-guns" that squirt out a precise amount of some fluid, or other, loaded up from some large 5 gallon vat marked only with "SOUR CREAM" in black letters against a white label. I find that sort of efficiency almost offensive.

h34r:

 

I spilled soy sauce once when I was transporting some kitchen stuff when I was moving... it got all over my back seat, but I was able to sponge it down quickly. The smell took a little while to dissipate, but overall I was impressed the fabric back there could withstand it with little to no staining.

 

I used to eat at Taco Bell a lot more often than I do now. I don't know how I stomached it that often (nearly daily). It had more to do with them being cheap (and therefore right in line with my meager budget) and easily accessible (one 1/2 mile from my house, another 1/8 mile from my work). I haven't eaten at Taco Bell in a couple of months now. I probably go about once every 2 months, if that. If I have only ~$2 in my wallet and I'm super hungry, know where I can go for a taco, burrito, and small soda to quench my appetite.