What in blazes was under the car seat all that time?
I've taken a lot of heat over the past 5 years since becoming a motorist & car owner, about the condition of the interior of my automobile. It's been generally cluttered, at best. But I decided to actually make a New Year Resolution this year, upon purchasing another vehicle last week, on account of the Hit & Run in the Snow and a Stapled Hand episode. My general rule before is that I "cleaned my car once a year, whether it needed it or not", or at least that's how some pals put it.
Upon being forced to clean out my old car, before relinquishing it, I found a rather disturbing object underneath the driver's seat...
A plastic zip-locked storage bag with contents immediately unidentifiable.
I have a pretty good memory for most things, but I honestly cannot even imagine, let alone remember, acquiring this... this... thing.
What on earth could this be... these dark brown spherical objects in matching brown moistness?
I know it must've came from someone else, because I don't use that style of zip-locking storage bags in my own home. I have been, for years, using those fancy shmancy zip-lock storage bags with the slide tabs.
The thing is, if it were food... I wouldn't have accepted it unless it was something I truly would've wanted to eat.
For example, my pal Ronny gave me zucchini back in the summer, and I not only ate mine, but I also ate the one he gave to Bri, which she left in my car. I wound up eating Bri's zucchini because I brought it in from the car with me. Which goes to show I normally don't leave good food in the car... even in the case I'd intended to give it back to Bri. I'm pretty grateful for offerings of food normally. But I'm generally pretty firm, and even blunt, if someone offers me something I know I have no use for or won't eat. In other words, I'm pretty fanatical about not wasting...
So if this was some forgotten gift of food, it's surely an anomoly for me. Unless, on the outside chance it could've once been something I had intentions of eating in the car. But this hardly looks like "travel food", which normally would be something along the lines of candy, animal crackers, or granola bars.
It is possible, although perhaps unlikely, that it was planted in my car, on the sly. I'm not sure if I have any friends who've ridden in my car that are quite that cheeky.
But it could've, possibly, on the outside chance, been planted by person or persons unknown, since the driver's side lock on that car had broken some while back, making it necessary for me to unlock the car from the passenger side and reach over to unlock the driver's side door; which meant that for the past several months, since that lock had broken, I had taken to leaving my car almost invariably unlocked at various and sundry locales. My reasoning was that my car was so cluttered and messed up with junk and 'honest to god' rubbish, that theives would find it too scary a prospect to rob, or at the very least, too much work to actually find anything of worth inside. And indeed, they could've searched for hours and not found anything of any value. Indeed, upon cleaning the car out, I myself found little of any real value to me.
Though I have saved this thing, I have not actually opened the bag.
I'm afraid.
Yet strangely allured by the mystery.
posted by Chloe | Wednesday 12 January 2005 7:08 AM
It looks an awful lot like olives to me!
Posted by Alison | Wednesday 12 January 2005 8:12AM
dates, or maybe prunes? you should take it to a lab for analysis!
Posted by cessna | Wednesday 12 January 2005 9:05AM
I wouldn't have accepted olives or prunes. And these things are too round, and too firm, to be any of those things. They're delicate, but they're not gushy.
But I did come up with the idea of posting it here, when I was posting in comments on a Cider Press Hill thread, and said, "I should take a photo of it and post it on my blog, and maybe people could make guesses and something will jar my memory. Or I could take it to a lab and have the contents analyzed."
Do they have labs such as that though? This isn't television, after all. hehe.
Posted by Chloe | Wednesday 12 January 2005 4:29PM
Looks like flower bulbs of some type. Does it look like dirt around them? Maybe it was in the car when you bought it or a friend put it there and forgot to take it with them.
Posted by MOM | Wednesday 12 January 2005 5:16PM
Hmm... very interesting indeed. It could be anything. I would not rule out that aliens may have put this in the car. I'd be careful... these could be the weapons of mass destruction that where never found. If you are brave enough to take one out to have a closer look, please be sure to post photos.
Posted by Joe K. | Wednesday 12 January 2005 5:25PM
Hmmm... my friend Leslie guessed grapes. But again, these look a little bigger, and definitely more firm.
Not sure about the flower bulbs. Though that doesn't ring any bells, and I don't have a garden. I don't think it's dirt in there, but that might be what makes the moistness brown, of course.
Anyway, I definitely had cleaned under the seats since I'd bought that car 4 years ago. haha. Though I can't for certain say I completely cleaned out under the seats in any recent times.
Posted by Chloe | Wednesday 12 January 2005 5:27PM
Have you been brave enough to break the seal and have a sniff? I'd guess bulbs of some sort, or olives. Your car sounds as clean as mine!
Posted by Jennifer | Wednesday 12 January 2005 5:30PM
Chestnuts roasting on a hot floorboard; strange smells coming from my car. 'Though it's been said, many times, many ways, how can I be....such a slob.
Posted by Lisa | Wednesday 12 January 2005 6:03PM
In anticipation of your editing of my post, I have voluntarilly censored my thoughts on the subject by typing, very neatly:
* removed due to questionable content *
So there.
Posted by John D. | Wednesday 12 January 2005 6:06PM
Looks like olives to me......You should have been around when I found an old pumpkin growing into the floor underneath my bed in an old apt years ago...Could have been one of those photo's you see detailed in highlights magazine.....Hey maybe that's where you can send this picture and question next!!!
Posted by Allison | Wednesday 12 January 2005 10:39PM
Could be somebody was hiding their stash under your seat.
UT
Posted by Uncle Tony | Thursday 13 January 2005 7:58AM
I know I didn't leave it. My belly did a few flips just looking at it. It had to come with the car. If you know the person who owned the car before you ,maybe they can tell you.
Aunt Rose
Posted by rose | Thursday 13 January 2005 6:54PM
My goodness, I do believe Lisa is correct!
Chestnuts!
It's jogged my memory, and I only have the slightest memory of having received them. And I believe I'd originally put them in the side slot compartment on the door, and thought they had fallen out somewhere. But lo & behold, they fell in. And once under that seat, not visible.
Posted by Chloe | Tuesday 18 January 2005 6:20PM
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It looks an awful lot like olives to me!
dates, or maybe prunes? you should take it to a lab for analysis!
I wouldn't have accepted olives or prunes. And these things are too round, and too firm, to be any of those things. They're delicate, but they're not gushy.
Looks like flower bulbs of some type. Does it look like dirt around them? Maybe it was in the car when you bought it or a friend put it there and forgot to take it with them.
Hmm... very interesting indeed. It could be anything. I would not rule out that aliens may have put this in the car. I'd be careful... these could be the weapons of mass destruction that where never found. If you are brave enough to take one out to have a closer look, please be sure to post photos.
Have you been brave enough to break the seal and have a sniff? I'd guess bulbs of some sort, or olives. Your car sounds as clean as mine!
Chestnuts roasting on a hot floorboard; strange smells coming from my car. 'Though it's been said, many times, many ways, how can I be....such a slob.
In anticipation of your editing of my post, I have voluntarilly censored my thoughts on the subject by typing, very neatly:
* removed due to questionable content *
So there.
Looks like olives to me......You should have been around when I found an old pumpkin growing into the floor underneath my bed in an old apt years ago...Could have been one of those photo's you see detailed in highlights magazine.....Hey maybe that's where you can send this picture and question next!!!
Could be somebody was hiding their stash under your seat.
UT
I know I didn't leave it. My belly did a few flips just looking at it. It had to come with the car. If you know the person who owned the car before you ,maybe they can tell you.
Aunt Rose
