I would never let my children eat in the car, but some people do, like a woman we knew
in the Early 2000s. She had 6 children and a beat up old Dodge Neon, and she needed to
move across the country.
She was going to drive that car. We couldn’t let her do that, so we traded our Ford Taurus
station wagon for that car. Well, the smell in that car was a war crime, and I had to get it
out. So I stripped everything. I took out the seats, and the the carpet, and washed it down
with bleach, Lysol, everything I could think of. And the smell still wouldn’t come out. So
finally, I found the source of the smell. It was a block of macaroni and cheese that had
slipped under the seat, in the back, into the trunk under the carpet. So we cleaned that
out, but the smell never went away. And that is why I would never let my children eat in
the car.
