OK - so this was on the radio on the drive home from work today - the question of the day was, “52% of all Americans have one in their car - what is it?”
I am a bit dubious about the answer, and couldn’t verify the info on a Google search, but according to the disc jockey, this is the answer:
A French fry under one of the car seats.
A female.
I guessed ice scraper. I probably have a french fry too tho…
I guessed “Capable/competent driver”…
(Yeah, I’m optimistic like that…)
And the survey says, “Dead hooker in the trunk!”
Who doesn’t find a finger under the seat from time to time?
I found a severed digit in a car that was in my father wrecking yard. The car had been in a pretty nasty crash. It was shriveled up and purplish black but the fingernail was still it’s whitish color.
I thought it would have been a trashbag. I refuse to carry one in my truck, I prefer to dump any trash as soon as possible.
Pot stash?
My first guess was ice scraper. My second guess was cell phone–though I decided that 52% was a little low for that.
I don’t think I have any french fries–don’t usually take them in my car. (And the amount of other assorted crud went down dramatically yesterday afternoon. I’ve been accumulating stuff for months.)
In three of the four largest states by population there is very little need for an ice scraper.
A gas pedal?
A quick check of spouse’s Home-Away-from-Home on Four Wheels reveals: more french fry containers than french fries, several coffee mugs, Chikfila bags & wrappers, many quarters, a dollar bill, some bathing suit magazines, drink cups, newspaper, some pay stubs, a few deposit slips and the biggest bane of all - Individually Wrapped Chocolate wrappers.
I guess we fall squarely in the 52%.
I’m probably throwing off the average…I cleaned about twenty french fries out of my car yesterday!
No, no, the answer is a turn signal lever. :dubious:
I was going to guess one of those little Christmas tree air fresheners. Like Miller says in Repo Man, “You’ll find one in every car. You’ll see.”
Uh… an ice scraper? Do you realize that if there was enough ice that you’d need one when most people go to work everything would be closed?
I believe it’s going to be around 74 today. Played a lovely round of golf yesterday (well, lovely in terms of the weather, anyway.)
A gun? Maybe 52% of all Texans…
I was being optimistic and guessed “tire gauge.”
Ah well.
An idiot at the wheel?
One of those “facts” that you have to wonder - even if this is true, how would they know?
I would guess somebody either did a small, non-random sample or they just took a guess.