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

[Jack 06]

What can I say? Nineteen days until 1/1/06...

Most of us, if we picture in our minds other PC members driving at all, probably picture mature, responsible, fairly neat individuals calmly and efficiently driving their Priuses---to work, running an errand, on vacation, whatever.

What we may NOT picture is a crazed person, not "focused 100%", frantically trying to maneuver in traffic WHILE stuffing down a fat, gooey Taco Bell burrito and/or slurping a 64-oz. Big One...

...much less getting it all over our beloved car! :P

Any prodigious tales of spillage have you? (Think Yoda.) If not you, your beloved family or friends? If not this car, another?

Anything so bad you had to stop somewhere and stanch the bleeding before you got home?

Or does your car always look like the Lincoln bedroom in the White House?

[DaveinOlyWA]

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

[Rancid13]

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!)

[geologyrox]

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

[Jack 06]

Why did I know I could count on you (Rancid)?

More to the point, why didn't you LICK the salad off? :P (Well, at least some surfaces.)

[Rancid13]

Originally posted by Jack 06@Dec 12 2005, 02:21 PM
Why did I know I could count on you (Rancid)? 

More to the point, why didn't you LICK the salad off? :P  (Well, at least some surfaces.)

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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.

[Mystery Squid]

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.

[Rancid13]

Originally posted by Mystery Squid@Dec 12 2005, 02:30 PM
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.

[aka007ii]

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!

[galaxee]

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.