Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Hmm. I wonder how many tales of housekeeping woe begin that way. Just to save everyone else the trouble, a hint: keeping a bottle of laundry detergent in the trunk of your car is not such a hot idea. Especially when it is hot, outside.
On the way out to West Virginia for our camping trip our youngest had a little, um, carsickness trouble. It seemed prudent, once we got our campsite set up, to visit the local grocery store for a few necessary foodstuffs and some.... cleaning products, preferably "green" ones I could use at the campground instead of tracking down a laundromat in the tiny town of Davis.
I was happy to find a reasonably small bottle of scent-free, biologically friendly liquid detergent - which worked great to clean up Connor's clothes, and didn't have to worry about hurting the environment or attracting bears.
The stuff worked so well we decided to keep it in our camping stuff for any such emergencies. And then after the last time we unloaded the car, it got left/forgotten in the trunk - oh sure, I saw it there, but it only registered as a brief "oh yeah, I better put that away somewhere at some point soon."
Mmm. This afternoon I went to put Connor's portable stroller back in the trunk after walking home from the bus stop - and, there was a puddle in my trunk. It was a small puddle, but I bet if I added water the residue left from it rolling around in there for a few weeks would probably wash the rug of the whole car.
Think maybe I could send my husband out with a scrub brush and do just that? After all our road trips this summer it could really use a scrubbing.
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