car talk

I am embarrassed to say that I’ve had my car since 2011 (I think? around then?) and it was not until yesterday that I finally did something about the water collector.

I have no idea what it’s *supposed* to be — it’s this indented plastic bit on the side of the trunk, like a storage bin. A storage bin that fills up with water. Personally, I suspect that the car designers identified that the trunk leaked, and the easiest way to address the problem was to put in a plastic water collector.

(Honestly it works pretty well? The rest of the trunk stays super dry, which is great. I just wish those car designers had made the thing removable, so you could easily dump the water back out.)

Anyway, it’s been varying levels of ‘full of water’ ever since the first time it rained after I got the car. Occasionally it has fully dried out, and I have to sternly remind myself not to put anything in it. (It looks like a storage bin! It’s so useful!) But recently it’s been more full than not, until even I could no longer ignore it.

But what to do? The plastic bin doesn’t come out. So I bravely donned gloves and used a sponge to slowly empty the water out, one squeeze at a time.* (It was kind of gross; the gloves helped. Less gross than I feared, though, and I threw the sponge away afterwards.)

(*One of the weirdest parts about living in an apartment complex is that you wind up doing these things in front of an audience. No one asked me what I was doing, but I’m sure I provided a few moments of entertainment for anyone hanging around their windows yesterday afternoon.)

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