Cocoa Butter is not the best Car Smell
Last weekend Nicole was over to work on her outfits because there is so much left to do in the next two and a half weeks. We were headed to lunch after she finished and she started to put lotion on and set the open container on the dashboard. Thinking that even if it did fall it looked pretty solid I didn't say anything. When I turned the corner I went slower and thought Nicole was going to hold onto it. Turns out she was getting more lotion and then let it go at the critical moment. Turns out it's also a lot more liquid than it looks. There was lotion everywhere. On the floor, the stick shift, the beverage dispenser, the little nook where I keep the cell phone charger (and typically the ipod charger, though thank goodness it was in the back seat) and all over me.
Nicole's solution to this problem was to use the few Kleenex's left in the travel pack to start cleaning it up and then to start trying to put all the lotion on herself. I'm pretty sure that much lotion cannot possibly soak into her skin and I thought if she kept at it she would soon have even more lotion on the upholstery. So I told her to stop it and not to touch anything and pulled into a gas station. I opened her door and she got out and started using all of their paper towels to clean out the lotion in my car. She cleaned most of it out except the lotion that went down the side of the seat and onto the track the seat was on. We couldn't get that out. So now when I get in my car it smells like cocoa butter. Lovely.
The minus is that I think the car charger for my phone is totally fried - though to be fair I need to try and get the lotion cleaned out of the plug in part with rubbing alcohol before I say that for sure. It will be a pain, but I think I can try and live without it until November when I am getting an iPhone.
The plus is that I have enough reasons to get the car detailed. It's been 8 years and I'm the only one who has vacuumed and shampooed the carpets and seats. It will be nice to have a professional with smaller tools do it. I just have to spend two hours and $90 to have it done. Thankfully I can work while I'm waiting. Oh, and I have to be in Mound at 8am on Thursday. Sweet!
The thing that really killed me is that I told Nicole that I bet she wouldn't do that again and she said no she wouldn't and then I had to remind her to move the really heavy Harry Potter book off the dash before it gave her a head injury. I was telling John and KG this story and they said that she has done this so many times already and just keeps doing it.
I'm sure that when I was a teenager I did equally stupid things over and over. The number of times I went hiking by myself off West Blvd where people went to party is direct evidence of this. Something horrible could have happened but I never thought about that until I got older and my brain started working. I just read an article that says teens don't have the capability to reason situations when they are driving so they shouldn't do it until they are older. Makes sense since 6 of the 9 accidents I've had in a car happened before I was 18.
But wow is it hard to not smack a kid on the back of the head and tell them you thought doing that would shake something loose - hopefully the logic part of their brain. Maybe that's why kids steal street signs and vandalize and why I touched an electric fence twice while wearing Sunday shoes. Maybe in future I'll look at what kids are doing and ask them what they are thinking before reminding them what happened last time. And since I am getting the car detailed on Thursday there will be no more lotion or other open items in my car. I want to enjoy the uber clean as long as possible.
Nicole's solution to this problem was to use the few Kleenex's left in the travel pack to start cleaning it up and then to start trying to put all the lotion on herself. I'm pretty sure that much lotion cannot possibly soak into her skin and I thought if she kept at it she would soon have even more lotion on the upholstery. So I told her to stop it and not to touch anything and pulled into a gas station. I opened her door and she got out and started using all of their paper towels to clean out the lotion in my car. She cleaned most of it out except the lotion that went down the side of the seat and onto the track the seat was on. We couldn't get that out. So now when I get in my car it smells like cocoa butter. Lovely.
The minus is that I think the car charger for my phone is totally fried - though to be fair I need to try and get the lotion cleaned out of the plug in part with rubbing alcohol before I say that for sure. It will be a pain, but I think I can try and live without it until November when I am getting an iPhone.
The plus is that I have enough reasons to get the car detailed. It's been 8 years and I'm the only one who has vacuumed and shampooed the carpets and seats. It will be nice to have a professional with smaller tools do it. I just have to spend two hours and $90 to have it done. Thankfully I can work while I'm waiting. Oh, and I have to be in Mound at 8am on Thursday. Sweet!
The thing that really killed me is that I told Nicole that I bet she wouldn't do that again and she said no she wouldn't and then I had to remind her to move the really heavy Harry Potter book off the dash before it gave her a head injury. I was telling John and KG this story and they said that she has done this so many times already and just keeps doing it.
I'm sure that when I was a teenager I did equally stupid things over and over. The number of times I went hiking by myself off West Blvd where people went to party is direct evidence of this. Something horrible could have happened but I never thought about that until I got older and my brain started working. I just read an article that says teens don't have the capability to reason situations when they are driving so they shouldn't do it until they are older. Makes sense since 6 of the 9 accidents I've had in a car happened before I was 18.
But wow is it hard to not smack a kid on the back of the head and tell them you thought doing that would shake something loose - hopefully the logic part of their brain. Maybe that's why kids steal street signs and vandalize and why I touched an electric fence twice while wearing Sunday shoes. Maybe in future I'll look at what kids are doing and ask them what they are thinking before reminding them what happened last time. And since I am getting the car detailed on Thursday there will be no more lotion or other open items in my car. I want to enjoy the uber clean as long as possible.
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