MESSY CAR FOOD DISASTERS

(January, 2024) Ever have a major spill in your car? The Jalopnik website asked readers for their “Messiest In-Car Food Disasters.” Some of the responses:
– “Finding a chocolate milk from a happy meal that had rolled under the seat over a month previously. It had burst and was slowly spraying congealed rancid chocolate cheese all over the bottom of my seat.”
– “I stopped at a gas station and buy the largest size Mtn Dew from the soda machine. I get back in my car and start driving up the on ramp when I realized, Mtn Dew is awful and I hate it, and I don’t know why I even got it so, screw it, I’m gonna throw it out the window. So, I just toss this whole massive drink out my window, except… I hadn’t rolled the window down. It exploded against the glass and shot back like a wave across me and my entire car.”
– “I went fishing on a Sunday but did not take the leftover frozen squid bait out of my trunk. The next day, after an 80-degree Florida day sitting out in the school parking lot, I opened the trunk. The now-rancid squid juice had leaked through the trunk liner into the innards of the rear of the car including the rear seat cushion.”
– “I got a bottle of whiskey, put it in the backseat with the seatbelt on it. I pulled over the bump in the alley behind my house, when the bottle slipped out of the seatbelt, fell out of the bag directly onto the seat rail slider where it promptly split the bottom of the bottle off and spilled the entire contents into the carpet. The smell eventually went away, though I drove extremely carefully for quite a while after because the car reeked of whiskey and there was no way to believably explain why if I got pulled over.”
– “A local caterer spilled a 5-gallon pot of fish stew in the trunk of mom’s Escape. They first paid to have the carpets shampooed, twice. That didn’t work so they paid to have the carpet in the trunk torn up and replaced. That STILL didn’t get rid of the smell, so they paid for one last interior detail before we traded the thing in because even months later the smell was still there.”
– “I left the case of soda in the car overnight in the winter, come spring I find frozen Coke covering the entirety of the hatch area.”
* PHONE TOPIC: My car spill disaster story.