What's in your car?
When consumer marketing strategist Kelley Styring pulled on her latex gloves and dug into cars all across America, she found a host of unusual items (and a whole lot of trash).
"The car isn't just a mode of transportation anymore," explains Styring. "It's a human habitat where we eat, sleep, work, and do a whole host of other things. Essentially, drivers' needs have changed, and automakers simply haven't kept up with them."
Cars desperately need an integrated trash management system.
"Living creates trash, and we're living in our vehicles like never before," says Styring.
Storage is another big need in vehicles. The cup holders she investigated rarely contained actual cups, as drivers compensated for the lack of places to put change, cell phones, iPods, keys and other small items.
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These are a few of the more unusual items she found:
• A half-eaten hamburger
• One push-up bra insert (where was the other?)
• A catheter bag (unused)
• A piece of desiccated American cheese that looked exactly like plastic
• Cigarette butts in a different brand and stained with a shade of lipstick not used by the car’s female owner (somebody was in trouble)
• Halloween decorations, winter clothing, snow chains in July
• Mash notes and mix tapes
• An empty shoe box in a bag with the receipt to return the shoes (the owner had no idea where the shoes went)
• A tree growing out of the debris in a pickup bed
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Come on QLers, 'fess up...what's in YOUR car?
Only cd's other than the normal car stuff...
and lots of them
interesting...................
WK do you carry a two pack or a six pack?
Off the top of my head tb...
WK wat do u sell apart from lungis ? :(
My car has a shirt, a jacket.. Alarm clock (Don't ask), couple of samples of the products that I sell, empty coke cans, some papers, a teddy bear (Don't know how it got there), some novels (5 to be precise) and some random crap
Do you know that off the top of your head WK, or did you just go and check?
Hahahahaha!
A pair of bullets is not going to get you far , is it.. ?
It's like going to an orgy and taking one rubber ..
Got an Ak 47 in Moi Car and a pair of Bullets
Rizks also loses hair.
Thanks, Hawk. I have more than one driving licenses.
LP, off course I am driver, there are a lot of driving schools in Qatar if you want I can suggest one. Rizks they are not Gohst but once gone out, then only the hairs I can see left on the seat.
"Styring found that the average driver carries 100 individual items in the car ranging from auto maintenance items to cosmetics to weapons"
Some cosmetics can also be used as weapons :O(
I have sweets, tissues, hat and auto maintenance items - but as I get older, even changing a wheel "Tyres" me out :O(
(Turkish) "Seats and a steering wheel."
Hawk u r sitting with a Ghost ! :(
u can see ONLY the hairs but not the body.....:(
So you're a driver, Hawk??
You cannot find anything in my car except some long hairs most oftenly on the passenger seat.
- BBQ tools
- Beach chairs
- Sand toys
- Baby's car seat
- Baby's Trolley
- Dust removal
- "Baby on Board" Sign
i found in my car a packet of minced mutton after a month, when felt sticky smell!
ohhhh i forgot to mention i have lots of lulu shoping bags and prmotion vouchers
LOL jack those codes are my dark past so i keep it in my car trunk and when i want to cry i open my trunk and cry LOL
Asif Khan... burn your car...lol
No... I will burn it... if I find codes of Java, VB, Oracle and C++ in it...
asif Khan you forgot to mention "Toothpick"....:)
in my car ull find
papers from my IT classes with source code of JAVA, VB, ORACLE, C+++
ARABIC clases notes
air freshner
after shave lotion
USB drives
fm modulator
insurance papers
water bottle
tissue paper and lots more
Da..No Thanks I have enough of the walking talking ones..:)
Jackmohanlal....my Sheesha is my First Aid....:)
you want one :D
na na i know what nasty creepy girly stuff you got there. just to enjoy your loneliness out on road at midnight with them :D
DaRude you mean blow up one?
dolls
chocolate
water
one suitcase - now I dont' suppose you want to know what was in the suitcase :D
Same here, but I usually carry in my bag.
Rizks.... I need one big Kit Kat for my car... Blease... its a real life saver
Rizks also has Sisha in his car....
I have one, yes.
LP, do you have one?
when you went on a loooooooooong road trip for 3 days.
LP they used it all by themselves....:(
Choco.. Your close it has to do with with a ride or rode upon?..lol
Out of stock? How come? If nobody has one, how can they be out of stock, Rizks?
LP... yeah :(
That one I dont have....
but doesnt keeping medicated things in the car in hot sun alter their properties?....
Jumper Cables and Towing Ropes to be added shortly ...
LP infact, once i went to a shop to buy a First Kit box for my car...but they were out of stock...:( so instead i bought a box of Kit-Kat for my car.....:)
Oh I get it UK, you must mean your bicycle
i piece of trash in the car will "tie" hubby's eyebrows. :(
what to do?
Really interesting that none of you mentioned the First Aid Kit. It is a must in other developed countries. Signs of the time?
Now If I told you that Choco would it be a sceret anymore? Lets say the things that you did not want to keep in the house? wink. Also one might need it in an emergency situation after having a few pints on a night out..wink..:)
a steel hammer - to be used for "FAKE CID'S.
What things, UKEng? Can you be more specific?
For me it a place to hide things..:) lol
I do take care for my car and am basically a good boy...:)
You forgot the First Aid kit, Jack.
Only the important things:
1. Foot Jack
2. Halogen Lamp
3. Beach Chair
4. Emergency Lamp
5. Car tools
No, TB wants to drive alone!
may I borrow the gun TB? :P
Snessy i guess TB wants to look for his soft side after all the destruction and meyhem!
TB...I can accept everything else in your car, but Celine Dion????
My car is immaculate, by the way :D
Drugs, alcohol, guns, knives and a Céline Dion CD.
My car has an engine.
Buncha boring neat-freaks :P
Can we hear from some sloppy QLers please?
My car is clean, except when hubby uses it, then I'll find wrappers, tissues, receipts...
I try to keep mine as neat as possibe.
Brit, I know a guy here who's car was his FIRST home!
I try to keep mine tidy...
Its mostly my sons stuff...his bat..ball...jacket..some magazines..all my trash is in my bag..lol
Not much, I keep it clean
My son's car is like a second home.. It has clothes, food , drink and i dare not think what else..
these are the following items in my car:-
. some used socks..
. car freshners BUT, empty bottle...:(
. Pack of Gudang Garam cigrattes
. Cigratte Liter
. a pack of condoms (FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSE)
. a pair of punching gloves
. a curly Wig
. one old Lungi
and many more...lemme think ! :(