glove-box surprises

[cellio]

Cleaning out a car after 15 years can provide some surprises. Particularly puzzling to me is the remote control for a Sunoco service place in Swissvale. I'll have to drive by, click it, and see if anything happens before I return it to them. (I didn't put it there. Presumably one of their people left it behind when I had the car in for service, though why he would have put it in the glove compartment is a complete mystery to me.)

Nostalgia moment: my glove compartment also contains a small pocket dictionary. A past SO felt strongly that one should never be far from a dictionary (this was pre-web, ok?), so he determined that both our cars needed this equipment and installed mine. I cannot, in fact, recall needing to consult it while in the car, but (he argued) better safe than sorry, and I will probably move it to the new car for grins. (I completely forgot about it when we were doing the return-each-other's-stuff part of the split.)

My glove compartment is primarily a burial ground for receipts from service work and inspections; it appears that about six years ago I cleaned out the old insurance and registration cards, because those didn't go all the way back, but the very bottom piece of paper was the service-department checklist from the day I took possession of the car.

Comments

[queenmabwords.livejournal.com]

I think a dictionary is important, but I don't have one in my car.

I'm in the process of cleaning out paperwork. It's a little scary.

Please let me know what happens to the Sunoco service remote!

[cellio]

I agree that dictionaries are important. Most rooms in our house have easy access to either a physical dictionary or an internet connection. :-) (Yeah, we're living in the dark ages of desktop machiens and wired connections, not laptops and wireless, so it is not trivially true that every room has internet access.)

Please let me know what happens to the Sunoco service remote!

Will do. They're not that far from my preferred grocery store, so I'll probably try to take care of it next time I go shopping.