Does anyone else not allow food in their cars?

In My Humble Opinion
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I bought a brand new car last October, and I made a rule that there will be no food in the car. I want to keep the car as nice as possible for as long as possible. I don’t want any accidents. Does anyone else this stringent (SP?) with their cars?

My brother doesn’t seem to understand this. If we go out to eat, he wants to bring home leftovers. I tell him no. He says, Kenny, It’s not going to hurt your car. I say, Clint, NO!!! Just the other day, knowing well that I don’t want food in my car, decides he wants to get an extra helping of rib tips (all you can eat deal at applebees) to take home. Why would he do this? He knew darn well that I don’t like food in my car, especially messy foods like that. He was going to leave it in the box, but I still say no.

Anyway, am I the only one who is this stingent (Sp?) about their car?

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Your brother is playing a power game with you. Stand firm.

But I think you’re a nut. Get a sweater box for your trunk, and use that for take-home food; let everyone but Clint use it.

Wait a minute; how do you get groceries home?

3

There’s a difference between no eating in your car and no food. No food is ridiculous, however, I do enforce the no eating one.

4

I know people who don’t allow eating in their car. I think it’s wierd, but it makes a bit of sense, if you have some strange aversion to vacuuming, or something.

Your plan, with no leftovers in styrofoam boxes, however, is just absolute insanity. Like j66 said, how do you get your groceries home? Orange juice in a carton is at LEAST as much of a mess waiting to happen as Applebees leftovers are.

5

There’s more to it than that. Greasy, slimy foods will stain, perhaps permanently. Odor is also a potential problem (No smoking in my car also).

6

I do support kputt; my car is a mess because I will alllow anything but people who have recently bathed in heavily scented soap in it.

But it’s just a car.

(I borrow my spouse’s for important events, like interviews.)

7

No eating, drinking, smoking, or sex in my truck. Nothing that may stain the interior. I also cringe when my brother who is a mechanic gets in while wearing his work uniform.

Takeout, etc is ok but don’t go eating in my truck. Drinking I don’t like, but depending on what it is I may allow it. Water is OK, but soda wouldn’t be. Smoking is an absolute NO!, and sex is a no, unless it includes me.

So yes I have the rules, but it is more of a case by case thing with me. Except for smoking.

8

I don’t allow food in cars unless it uses a seatbelt.

9

When I was younger, and drove 30 year-old rustbuckets, all points behind the front seats were considered “the dump”. When I bougt a decent car with my g/f, we tried the no food thing. Well, I tried it, but she’s a car killer, and we’ve got a five year-old boy, so naah…

10

You don’t allow food in your car? How do you get your groceries home?

I don’t eat in the new Jetta (part of the reason is it’s a manual, and I’m not that coordinated), but then again I don’t do fast food or anything that would have me eating while driving. But if we do takeout, I don’t see the harm. Just ask for a plastic bag and it shouldn’t spill (unless your brother is like 5 years old or something). I think you’re being anal.

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I’m another one who’s had exclusively old rustbuckets with one exception. Even with the exception I didn’t care. I agree with whoever it was earlier that said it’s just a car. I’ve never been able to understand how people can treat a piece of machinery better than they treat other people.

If I had a really nice car, I would take care of it and (probably) not allow smoking, but otherwise it can be cleaned.

My current POS is only worth about $500 so I don’t hesitate to toss garbage and cigarette butts (extinguished) onto the floor.

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Of course I’m anal. I haven’t grocery shopped in awhile, but plan on doing that tonight. I don’t like messy food like rib tips in my car for a 35 mile ride. It takes me 2 minutes to get home from the grocery store, so I get stuff home before anything can happen.

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No EATING in the car.

Carrying the food home is ok.

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Food is allowed, but not eating. My biscuits and gravy leftovers made an escape on the floor mat in the husband’s TransAm last weekend. Holy shit I thought worlds were going to collide. It was just a drop, and on the washable mat, but he got a little mental over it. I just snickered. Heh-heh.

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Wow…if you and I got together, ** kputt **, we would probably auto-combust and disappear from the face of the earth, much like a coming together of matter and anti-matter. My car is a beautiful old junk-bucket with 350,000 miles on it…any and all food is highly encouraged; throwing the food away when done with it is not required. There was only one time when I had an issue with smell – an old Snapple bottle that was in the back seat for several weeks somehow stank the place like crazy. When the bottle was thrown out an open window at high speeds (into a recycling bin, of course!), the car immediately smelled better.

Cars, as I see them, are for transportation and entertainment. They are not all-mighty Gods to be worshipped or important places in which to show off to others. And they’re very easy to clean.

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Continuing the “what is that smell?” hijack,

Gatorade goes very, VERY bad after a while in the heat. My old car smelled like the inside of a lime’s anus for a while until I got rid of that bottle.

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When I first got my car, it smelled like old man cologne, and old car. Now, it doesn’t have a noticeable smell.

Speaking of things that smell bad after a while, Cherry Coke smells really bad after it has been in your locker at school for almost the whole year and had time to turn into a blob of cherry mold and slime.