"Super stinky car" in carpool - WWYD

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Anonymous wrote:Why can't you ask the other family to clean their car? Your kids is spending hours a week in there.

You might be able to get them a car detailing gift card, like the PP mentioned, but you can't really ask them to just 'clean their car'.

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I'm surprised the first grader hasn't mentioned it himself. Kids say the darnedest things after all, and aren't known for their tact. Of course you cant tell him to say something or he might rat you out.

Maybe he could just keep asking "what's that smell?" Why is the seat sticky?

[Anonymous]

Time for your kid to thoughen up OP

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Send him with a nice smelling bandana or something that he can sniff if the car smell gets to him. And take a walk out to the car when he gets picked up some day so you can see for yourself if he's overreacting or if it is something extreme.

My car has fabric seats and my kids describe the leather seats in my hisband's car as "sticky" since it's not their usual car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised the first grader hasn't mentioned it himself. Kids say the darnedest things after all, and aren't known for their tact. Of course you cant tell him to say something or he might rat you out.

Maybe he could just keep asking "what's that smell?" Why is the seat sticky?

I like this idea. Unless of course the smell is a dead body in the trunk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised the first grader hasn't mentioned it himself. Kids say the darnedest things after all, and aren't known for their tact. Of course you cant tell him to say something or he might rat you out.

Maybe he could just keep asking "what's that smell?" Why is the seat sticky?

I like this idea. Unless of course the smell is a dead body in the trunk.

Casey Anthony did have any other kids so she wouldn't be doing carpool.

[Anonymous]

Eek. I don't know what to tell you. I currently drive a very messy car (beach towels, toys, umbrellas, reusable shopping bags, etc. are all over the place - and HATE it) but there's no trash in there other than the occasional rogue goldfish cracker, and it doesn't smell.

As a kid, I hated going to people's houses that weren't clean. I actually wouldn't eat at certain people's houses because their kitchens were gross or there were pets everywhere. My parents kept a REALLY clean house (spotless), so I got used to that. I sympathize with your kid.

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Anonymous wrote:

this one lady who would pull up in her minivan. It was a nice, new model. But when she'd slide the door open, the back floor was covered in chicken bones!!!! The whole car stank. I mean who does that? Who eats chicken and tosses the bones on the floor of their car?

I have a mental picture of who does that.

My mental picture matches the people I've seen doing it on metro.

[Anonymous]

I've gotta say, I find it really bizarre that OP is seriously considering rearranging her life to the tune of several hours a week because her kid is too "sensitive" to smell something gross.

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I have one kid with a super-sniffer, and it would be a problem for him, too. It's not a matter of "sucking it up" -- an important life skill I encourage in many ways -- bad smells are bothersome to him in a way that they aren't to most people.

Can he ask to sit by a window and have it down a crack? Tell the driver that he's never had a problem with car sickness, but for some reason he hasn't been feeling quite right on the drives to school, and you think some fresh air might help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the owner of a car that had a rouge sippy cup of milk in it for months (rolled up under the seat then got trapped in the coils of the underside of the seat), I say tell your ds to suck it up. I am sure they know the car smells. You could also give them a gift card for an auto detail job. Or put Vicks vapor rub under your son's nose. As I tell my ds, owner of aforementioned sippy cup, life is full of bad smells get used to it because we will be in Paris this Spring.

You're disgusting. Why would you give your kid milk in the car and then leave that in your car. How lazy are you to let it sit in there?

[Anonymous]

Great time for a life lesson. I don't think it's a good reason to end the carpool.

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Would you carpool yourself in that car? I wouldn't, so I wouldn't make my kid do it. He can toughen up doing other things he doesn't want to do, that I insist on.

[Anonymous]

The DS is gay.

[Anonymous]

Get them a gift certificate for a interior detail, otherwise the vapor rub is a time tested remedy.