Do you keep junk in your car?

hollydolly said:
I'm glad I have the AA cover.. because nowadays if I waited for a man to come along and help as they used to years ago..I'm either going to be waiting a verrry long time, cuz men are afraid they're going to be accused of something.... or I'm going to end up with a Killer...

The AA will do just fine..lol
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I can remember a time when if a woman was standing in front of her car with the hood open, she would be inundated with help by passing gentlemen.

Once, I couldn't get my company van started and I had the hood up looking at it like I had any idea what to do. A pickup truck full of construction workers screeched to a stop, jumped out and went to work on the van. They got it started and then insisted on following me back to the office to make sure I got there safely. A true "Good Old Boy" is incapable of driving past a lady in automotive distress without stopping to help.
 

Teacher Terry said:
No junk is in my car. I have necessary items and my dog car seat to keep my babies safe.
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when my DD and her o/h had her doggie hotel business, she had several ''doggie vans'' to transport the doggie guests around in the big cages at the back ..but she always had her precious little chihuahua in the doggie seat in the back


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jujube said:
I can remember a time when if a woman was standing in front of her car with the hood open, she would be inundated with help by passing gentlemen.
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About twenty years ago, I saw a piece on TV about Gypsy (Traveler) women doing that in certain parking lots to meet older men with money.. Sometimes they would pick a man out from the obits in the paper, a widower with an expensive car was the perfect mark.

This description fit my father to a T. For a while, he was so lonely, I used to hang up the phone after talking to him and say, "Where are gypsy women when you need them!"
 
None of my cars have had trash in them. Anything I have serves a purpose & is needed & stowed away ie. 1st aid kits, paper towels, jack, maps, hand wipes, toilet paper, vehicle tow strap, spare leash/collar, umbrella, paper/pen/pencil, antacids, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, asst tools, etc.
 
That Lady in PA said:
many men have no idea what to do under the hood any more...
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well tbf you can't blame them for that because newer cars are all computer operated.

My husband who can build cars from the ground up.. and take old cars and make into super-cars.. that's his hobby....he had to buy specific machines that read computer algorithms to be able to repair newer cars..or even diagnose the problem.. most guys don't know how to do this...
 
In a cardboard box in the trunk is a set of jumper cables, a tow chain and a 12 volt tire pump.

up front is a squeegee for the windows. In the console there are sunglasses. I keep the box that the windshield wiper blades came in. When it is time to replace them, the size is on the box.
 
just been watching a YT Cop video where they stopped a woman with her baby in the car.. and the car is just full of junk...

Incredible !

The baby was in a car seat in the back if the driver had crashed all that junk would have killed the child....
 
I was a volunteer firefighter in northern New Jersey and late one night my crew responded to an automobile accident on the highway where a DUI in a Corolla drove into the rear of a gasoline tanker truck. No leaks no fire, but the driver was trapped.

We had to cut the roof off the Toyota to extricate the driver. Without exaggeration there were hundreds, hundreds of empty Dunkin Donuts coffee containers in that car. Hundreds!
 
MaddHollander said:
I was a volunteer firefighter in northern New Jersey and late one night my crew responded to an automobile accident on the highway where a DUI in a Corolla drove into the rear of a gasoline tanker truck. No leaks no fire, but the driver was trapped.

We had to cut the roof off the Toyota to extricate the driver. Without exaggeration there were hundreds, hundreds of empty Dunkin Donuts coffee containers in that car. Hundreds!
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see this is what I've been saying over and over again, after watching these police and eergency service youtube videos'..I'm stunned, really shocked at the mess of the interiors of these cars in the US ..I say the US.. simply because I have never seen anyone's car like that here.. or anywhere else.....and it's clear that if the car goes on fire, as you aready know better than me.. then it has highly flammable items inside which will just have it go up like a bomb...and anyone inside won't stand a chance
 
I watch a YouTube channel named The Detail Geek. He gets cars taken as trade-ins from the dealer - they are so bad they won’t touch it. Unbelievable the things he finds. It’s relaxing to watch him turn a trash heap into something presentable. This guy is Canadian (Saskatchewan) BTW.
 
Well, let's see. I've got a music stand in its case, a box of tissues, a few receipts in a little cubby, and a hat. Oh, and another cubby with coins in it.

I do need to vacuum it out, though.
 
My car has "run flat" tires, so no spare or jack. I do carry a small air pump that plugs into what we used to call the cigarette lighter. And I've been carrying jumper cables for the past 20 or 30 years, and decided last week that, having never been used, I could leave them in the garage. No empty coffee cups, soda bottles, candy/snack wrappers, but I do keep a small bag full of loose change in the center console.

I've made a number of road trips (~900 miles each way) in the past year, and now I'm done. Cell phones are the only essential these days.
 
I have kept my cars clean and junk free. Nothing, not even a spec of dirt. Nothing hanging off the mirror or attached to the dash. Original show room condition.
 
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A full medical kit in an old pilot's case, jumper cables, tow straps, gloves, blanket, water, flashlight, granola bars. Chap stick and quarters in the drink holder.
 

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