glove-box surprises
Feb. 29th, 2004 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioCleaning 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.
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.
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Date: 2004-03-01 05:28 am (UTC)Leaving aside the question of whether one could be said to be "driving" when sitting in the rush-hour mess... I believe the intent was actually for usage at rest stops and by passengers. Feel safer with him on the roads now? :-)