Friday night after trick-or-treating, we went to a halloween party. Lots of kids + lots of food and drinks = lots of trash. I volunteered to take a load home because I was in a helpful mood right then.
While loading up the back of the van with about a dozen bags, someone commented that I better get this trash out as soon as I got home or it may leak into my carpeting. No problem.
As we were leaving the party, I got a birth call. We went home and quickly got everyone into bed before I left. This birth just happened to be the energizer bunny of births and I was there for 30 hours.
I got home Sunday morning at 5:00 am and was barely standing as I walked in the front door. I promptly fell asleep.
Late Sunday afternoon, I got another 'tentative' birth call. I quickly packed my bags again and jumped into bed hoping for some sleep before it was time for me to head out again.
Monday morning, I dropped the boys off at co-op and drove on to the next birth.
Did you notice? Because by this time, I finally noticed the smell of garbage coming from the back of the van.
I was away from home with a dozen bags of garbage in my van and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it but wait.
By the time we emptied the back of the van, the bags had leaked into the carpeting. Originally I had good intentions about separating the garbage out into garbage and recyclables, but my good intentions were put in the cans with the rest of the garbage after being coated with all kinds of questionable liquids and stickiness.
Even after vacuuming out candy wrappers and debris today, air drying and air freshening, it still stinks.
Jon has reminded me that I have a bad track record with putting things in trunks. I tend to forget. My worse offense was putting a watermelon in my car's trunk in the middle of the summer, and then forgetting it.
For a month. In the dead of summer.
Out of sight, out of my mind.
I hope my kids never hide in the trunk...
5 comments:
Once bought a potato because it looked like someones face. I then forgot about it in my back seat, talk about smelly.
ps. I didn't know you got busted for an unauthorized Bible study. Someone once warned me about one I was having. I said uh, deal with it.
My worst smelly car experience happened when Caitlin put a container of milk in one of the backseat compartments of my van as we were heading out on vacation. Weeks later there was a terrible stench in my car. I got out of the car and it smelled fine. An hour later it smelled like something had died in there. I finally found the curdled milk which had exploded out of the container.
get a spray bottle and fill it with 1/3 cup white vinegar and 2/3 cup water. Spray it over the carpet and it should take care of the odors
oh omg ew ewe ewewrwerfasdkfjs;dlkfj yuckkkky!!! watermelon in the trunk?? girl you had a DEAD BODY not a watermelon!!!!
(i can just imagine the.. uhm.. crawling things. maggots. EWKEWsdjfsdf!!!!)
i once let a huge massive zuchini sit on my kitchen counter bc i didn't knwo what one did with such a big vegetable(i mean, really, it was almost two feet big) and uhm. when i noticed liquid was coming out. my husband and i attempted to move it. and it promptly crumbled and it's guts spilled into the sink.
and then we realized, the guts were moving. yeah. i am really good with vegetables now.
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