I am not blond. You might think otherwise when you read the following.
I did a quick late week grocery shopping trip last night - a few items $13.56 worth. It was hot and muggy and I got most of the groceries in. I forgot a watermelon in the back of my minivan.
Do you know what happens to a watermelon in 90 heat (more likely over 100) in a closed car?
It implodes. I spent a great deal of time today with the carpet cleaner and baking soda trying to clean it up. It has improved 87% though there is sort of a funky smell that sort of hits you when you get in.
We're driving to Milwaukee tomorrow. My daughter took Febreeze and put it in her bag.
More baking soda and carpet cleaning is in order.
I am dumb. Lesson learned: never leave explodable items in the back of a minivan when it is hotter than Hell.
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there is a product you can get, i have only bought it once (when DF vomited in my car - lovely!) it comes in a can and sprays out into a foam and 'eats' dirt and bad smells and leaves a nice vanilla smell.
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When we lived in Maine we had the opposite problem in the winter. I left a couple of cans of soda in the trunk of my car, and when they froze overnight they burst, but I didn't know it because it was the trunk... and when it thawed I ended up with root beer all over everything. It cleaned up all right, though.
Jerry
July 17th, 2010 at 02:00 pm 1279371642
4 years before that, same daughter left crayons in my 6 month old Toyota Tercel wagon and they melted in the back seat....but that was my fault...