| Considering just how important a car is to most | | | | have the misfortune to crash into something, all that |
| people, whether for the convenience of getting from | | | | detritus will continue to travel at the same speed you |
| place to place, the bragging rights, or the sheer | | | | were just doing and become life threatening missiles, |
| amount of money spent to purchase and then | | | | only coming to rest when encountering an immovable |
| maintain a vehicle - isn't it amazing how most cars | | | | object - which could very well be the back of your |
| resemble either, a rubbish dump, or a junk shop? | | | | head. |
| Here is a revelation for you: your car is not a | | | | Imagine, a fine piece of forged steel, maybe a |
| portable dumpster. | | | | spanner, possibly a set of screwdrivers if not an |
| Food wrappers, dropped food, coffee cups, shoes, | | | | entire tool-box, hurtling from the rear of the car at |
| tools, toys, school books, CDs, pens, coins and | | | | 100kmh, in your general direction. Anything which is |
| anything else lazily dumped in the back. I think a | | | | not nailed down, becomes a potential threat. This |
| motor vehicle is the only place that people will happily | | | | includes any pets you have in the vehicle at the time |
| sit in amongst their own rubbish. Well, you wouldn't | | | | that are not restrained, as in have their own |
| do it inside your own house would you? Of course | | | | seat-belts. Your pet may not be very big, however, |
| not! This is because we are all, generally, trained from | | | | Fido, or Fluffy, travelling at anywhere from 60 to 100 |
| an early age to pick up after ourselves. In our cars | | | | is a different matter entirely. |
| however, normal rules of civilisation don't appear to | | | | I had an interesting experience not that long ago. |
| count. | | | | Cruising at 120 with all the windows down, created |
| When you have kids, well, yeah, that is different. It's | | | | some kind of vortex inside the car, whipping up one |
| easy to get tired of collecting everything they have | | | | of those plastic shopping bags - which after having |
| dropped, considering the next time they get in there, | | | | tried to wrap itself around my head, finally settled on |
| the same thing will happen - probably up until the age | | | | adhering itself to the inside of the windscreen. Luckily, |
| of 35. So really, that's what it's all about. This rubbish, | | | | I am not prone to panic and it was but a moment to |
| which we know will take all of 1 min. to clear up - is in | | | | remedy the situation. However, I have known quite a |
| the car. | | | | few people who would have had difficulty with this |
| When you get home from whatever trip - you close | | | | situation - and quite possibly caused an accident |
| the doors and walk away from it, close the garage | | | | through panic. |
| door, too, so now you can't even see the car, and | | | | If the inside of your car can be declared as an |
| retire inside your nice clean and tidy house. Also, this | | | | archaeological dig, maybe it's time to do something |
| "out-of-site-out-of-mind" attitude, is often | | | | about it. Get organised. It won't take up too much of |
| sub-consciously justified, by the sure knowledge that | | | | your time. Get a CD rack. Put small rubbish bags |
| you are not about to invite guests to "come and | | | | behind each seat. Remove anything which does not |
| have a look at my filthy car". Then again, you may | | | | belong in the car and put it where it does belong. |
| live in a pig-pen, so the transition from car to house | | | | Tools to the shed or garage; clothes back in the |
| will make no noticeable impression upon you. | | | | house; toys back in the kids rooms; newspapers, |
| Whether your car is in fact a pig-pen, or immaculate | | | | magazines, etc, read 'em or chuck 'em. |
| enough to eat off the floor, there will be items in | | | | If you have maintenance type tools for the car, put |
| there that are unnecessary for day to day driving. | | | | them in a toolbox - in the trunk. Manuals and |
| Do you really need 123 CDs? How about that | | | | important vehicle documents - put them in the |
| umbrella that languishes on the floor in the rear, which | | | | glove-box. Every time you have been on an |
| you never use? Well, face it, this is why you have | | | | extended trip, take an entire 60 seconds when you |
| the car in the first place - so that you don't have to | | | | get home to replace the rubbish-bags, pick up |
| walk any great distances, rain or no. | | | | discarded clothes, etc. |
| Not only is this, in some cases a bio-hazard, but | | | | Your car is not a portable dumpster, remember the |
| moreover a danger to life and limb. As you travel in | | | | old adage "tidy house, tidy mind", if you live in a |
| your car, at any speed, so too is all that crap. If you | | | | mess your mind is probably a bit disorganised, too. |