Things found in my glovebox
• A puzzle book (with proof of my mad Framework Puzzle skills)
• My car’s maintenance manual
• Five pairs of super-cheap sunglasses that I never wear
• Tire pressure gauge (used every day before I bought new tires)
• Thirty napkins
• A plastic baggie of corn skewers (from the corn on the cob cupcakes TWO YEARS ago)
• Directions from Mapquest to my old hairdresser, a place I went to a thousand times but still needed computer assistance to find
How about you?
Our glove compartment is pristine, but only because we emptied it when we had to leave our car at the shop following our accident, and we never refilled it. All that’s in there is the manual, complete with registration and proof of insurance, and a couple of napkins. This was a problem when I went to get snow tires and it turned out our car had locking lug nuts and we’d emptied the key out of the glove compartment. I had to drive home to get it. So actually, that’s back there now, too.
Comment by Jess — January 27, 2010 @ 2:30 pm
Ours would not hold all that. We have the maintenance manual, a special tool thingy the garage needs to remove our tires and a map of Ontario. No gloves.
Comment by LoriD — January 27, 2010 @ 2:42 pm
Do you know I did not even need to look at the photo of the cupcakes I totally knew which ones you were referring to… has it really been TWO years?!?!
Hmm not much in our glove box to speak of but I am anal like that and our vehicle is fairly new. The most exciting thing is (and I am not shitting you here) in both cars I keep packets of Ketchup and gum in case I careen off an embankment and live and I need something to eat for days on end because no one can see my car from the road where it went off… TRUE STORY!
Comment by Christina — January 27, 2010 @ 2:58 pm
Off the top of my head - two pairs of gloves, an umbrella, an ice scraper with the handwarmer/glove thingie, car manual, proof of insurance, registration, random paperwork, etc.
Comment by Shelly — January 27, 2010 @ 4:07 pm
I’m afraid that being a compulsive neat-freak, but glovebox is very boring. Maintenance manual and auto paperwork sit neatly stacked. I like your extra sunglasses.
Comment by amber — January 27, 2010 @ 6:32 pm
I second that ours would not hold that much. It has owner’s manual, a thousand out of date insurance cards (making it a trial to sift through all of them when inevitably pulled over for speeding), an attachment for the Ipod to charge in the (OMG) cigarette lighter (yes, our car has a cigarette lighter, for realz), and a half a roll of quarters for meter parking. Oh, and an “accident kit” with camera, notepad, and teeny tiny pencil that the body shop gave us the third time we were in for repairs on a third accident totally not our fault. So, yeah. I guess there’s more in there than I originally thought. No gloves, though. Weird.
Comment by NGS — January 27, 2010 @ 8:25 pm
you have got me beat on the amount of napkins, i only have 18, plus the L.L Bean first aid kit, manuals and directions to various baseball fields from nicks last season of travel baseball (last year!) oh and a pen, a rosary, funeral card, tylenol and my insurance cards, Exciting i know!
Comment by fritz — January 28, 2010 @ 7:42 am
Ha! My husband always saves napkins, I call him grandma.
We have the manual, a tackle box full of first-aid things, several receipts for car related things, a couple cds or dvd’s that we lent out, got back, and never bothered to take inside, TISSUES because I cannot live with my sun-makes-me-sneeze issues without them, a map of Utah and Nevada from our honeymoon, some deposit slips for our bank, and several pens.
And ohmygod I remember those cupcakes from when I was spending my entire work days reading your archives. I think I sent the link to Hubs so he could see how cool they were.
Comment by parkingathome — January 28, 2010 @ 2:59 pm
god, i STILL love those cupcakes. so adorable.
my glovebox is JAM PACKED with all sorts of random crap. the manual, several invoices from repair / oil changes / whatever, some kleenex, cold medicine, who knows. everything ever. i try not to open it.
Comment by Alice — January 28, 2010 @ 4:09 pm
Dude, my entire vehicle is trashed. I think the glove box is maybe the CLEANEST part of it. As soon as it gets remotely warm out again I have big plans to vacuum and clean out that thing. I shudder every time I get in it, seriously. Crumbs EVERYWHERE.
Comment by Sarah — January 30, 2010 @ 10:32 am