Oh, the humanity…

I have a confession – I am a messy car person. My car is pretty much ALWAYS a disaster. Observe the state it was in yesterday:

The passenger side, before cleaning, from the outside:

The passenger side, viewed from the driver’s seat:

Note the backpack, purse, umbrella, and winter coat – those are all normal things to be found in my car…not so normal? The fact that the junk on the floor (i.e. the stuff that i don’t even know what is there) has risen to the level of the actual seat on the passenger side. No, I’m not kidding.
The backseat, prior to cleaning:

See the dry cleaning? Yeah, those are my husband’s shirts. Can I at least get points for that? I may have a messy car, but I drop off and pick up A’s dry cleaning for him!
And yes, that is an OPENED case of Diet Coke – I got thirsty. Sue me.

So, I finally cleaned the car yesterday. It does eventually get to a point where I need to purge, and clean out the car – usually when I need to find something. However, this is the first time I decided to take notes of anything funny I might find. Among the most interesting -

A lip gloss I didn’t even remember buying:

but I’m so excited about!

And – seriously? A cassette tape? WTF?! I don’t even OWN a cassette player, let alone have one in my car:

No idea where that came from, or what’s on it – and I have no way of finding out, because I DON’T OWN A CASSETTE PLAYER BECAUSE IT’S NOT 1984.

Among the other amusing things I found: 16 empty diet coke cans (I have a serious problem), 11 books (not counting the textbooks in my backpack or the books i will be posting on paperbackswap), a $100 check from A’s grandma from christmas (oops), 3 birthday cards from almost 3 months ago, a project from fall semester, sampling equipment from last summer’s sampling season at work, and 3 full bottles of sunscreen. I think maybe I need to clean out the car more often.