What does it say about you if you have a dead hooker in your trunk?

Empty like my life.

In my trunk are two folding lawn chairs (in bags), an umbrella, a straw hat and a battery charger/tire inflator thingie.

I guess it says I'm either very neat and organized or just don't spend very much time in the car. And considering my house, I'd say it was safe to go with the latter and not the former.

I've got a spare tire, jack, 4 way and jumper cables. What do I win?

I got nothing.

/Literally nothing. SUV's don't have trunks.

"It's Sunday, and nothing much is happening here in the newsroom... I know, let's do a story about what your car trunk says about you"

Don't they say that everyday?

I got the usual car emergency stuff, a baby stroller, plastic bags to bring back to the store for recycling, a lounge chair for little league practice, an umbrella and some other crap. The interior of the car is littered with my kids' junk. All in all it says I don't care, it's just a device to get me from A to B.

An emergency survival kit fitted with the basics to survive without shelter for a week.

/Old habits die hard. Used to work back country in the Sierras. Put the kit together then and have just kept it up.

Laz Long:An emergency survival kit fitted with the basics to survive without shelter for a week.

I'm curious: what's in the kit?

KellyLockhart:I'm curious: what's in the kit?

Off the top of my head:
First Aid Kit
Roll of heavy duty plastic sheeting
5 heavy duty trash bags
Sleeping bag
Insulated coveralls
Canvas work gloves
rain poncho
Wide-brimmed hat
Skiers face mask
Spare jacket/windbreaker
Insulated work boots
Machete
Packages of instant soup/noodles for 15 meals
Beef jerky
One pound bag of trail mix
Duct tape
Flint and steel
Two flashlights (one of the shaken type, the other a maglite)
Roll of "baling wire"
Roll of 22 gauge insulated wire
Steel wool
Package of bic lighters
Two multi-tools
100 rounds of spare ammo for the handgun that is always in the vehicle.
Package of glow sticks
Steel can that doubles as storage for many items but is intended as a cooking pot.
Additionally, there is a generic road emergency kit stripped of anything not in the survival kit (reflectors, flares, jumper cables, etc) and items that are always in the vehicle (bottled water, handgun, etc)

/Shelter, food, and fire taken care of. Water is the main concern.
//If I get stuck in the desert, I am probably toast.

Laz Long:
Roll of heavy duty plastic sheeting
5 heavy duty trash bags
Insulated coveralls
Canvas work gloves
rain poncho
Skiers face mask
Machete
Roll of "baling wire"
Roll of 22 gauge insulated wire
100 rounds of spare ammo for the handgun
cooking pot


I think you forgot a copy of Huey Lewis and the News' Sports.

Laz Long: Off the top of my head:
First Aid Kit
Roll of heavy duty plastic sheeting
5 heavy duty trash bags
Sleeping bag
Insulated coveralls
Canvas work gloves
rain poncho
Wide-brimmed hat
Skiers face mask
Spare jacket/windbreaker
Insulated work boots
Machete
Packages of instant soup/noodles for 15 meals
Beef jerky
One pound bag of trail mix
Duct tape
Flint and steel
Two flashlights (one of the shaken type, the other a maglite)
Roll of "baling wire"
Roll of 22 gauge insulated wire
Steel wool
Package of bic lighters
Two multi-tools
100 rounds of spare ammo for the handgun that is always in the vehicle.
Package of glow sticks
Steel can that doubles as storage for many items but is intended as a cooking pot.
Additionally, there is a generic road emergency kit stripped of anything not in the survival kit (reflectors, flares, jumper cables, etc) and items that are always in the vehicle (bottled water, handgun, etc)

/Shelter, food, and fire taken care of. Water is the main concern.
//If I get stuck in the desert, I am probably toast.

So not to be "Debbie Downer" or anything, but what's all that costing you in fuel economy? And why? Because this was the first thing I though of when reading your list...

Claude Ballse:So not to be "Debbie Downer" or anything, but what's all that costing you in fuel economy? And why? Because this was the first thing I though of when reading your list...

Less than dead body in the trunk :-)

Remember, your car says who you are.

Need some cool? Buy it! We'll show you how.

Got enough misc tools to rebuild a small engine. I put them in the trunk about 2 years ago and just never cared to take them out.

Mine says: this is a truck you idiot, there's no trunk.

I've got a thing of fabreeze, fabric softener, dryer sheets, laundry detergent, lysol, a book, jumper cables, and my auto-battery starter thing, just in case my battery dies when no one else is around. Speaking of which, I should probably recharge that.

Laz Long:KellyLockhart:I'm curious: what's in the kit?

Off the top of my head:
First Aid Kit
Roll of heavy duty plastic sheeting
5 heavy duty trash bags
Sleeping bag
Insulated coveralls
Canvas work gloves
rain poncho
Wide-brimmed hat
Skiers face mask
Spare jacket/windbreaker
Insulated work boots
Machete
Packages of instant soup/noodles for 15 meals
Beef jerky
One pound bag of trail mix
Duct tape
Flint and steel
Two flashlights (one of the shaken type, the other a maglite)
Roll of "baling wire"
Roll of 22 gauge insulated wire
Steel wool
Package of bic lighters
Two multi-tools
100 rounds of spare ammo for the handgun that is always in the vehicle.
Package of glow sticks
Steel can that doubles as storage for many items but is intended as a cooking pot.
Additionally, there is a generic road emergency kit stripped of anything not in the survival kit (reflectors, flares, jumper cables, etc) and items that are always in the vehicle (bottled water, handgun, etc)

/Shelter, food, and fire taken care of. Water is the main concern.
//If I get stuck in the desert, I am probably toast.

Sounds like that would make a good kidnapper's tool kit as well.

My car trunk says I'm a raging alchoholic, and if I was smart I would cash in that aluminum and by another 30 pack. By the way the full trunk of cans was drank while tailgaiting at Miller Park, not while driving.

Boxes of my stuff live in my trunk. It says I need a farking apartment. And my life back.

/depressing, but true.

I was more interested in the story of the kid who lost four fingers playing tug of war.

/They never explained how she lost the fingers.
//These fake news outlets aren't even pretending anymore...
///Who, what, where, when, why, and HOW ya jackasses

The trick to getting lots of dead hookers in your trunk is to take your time. Let them settle.

Somewhere under the old and moldy 7-11 nacho containers, 60 half empty bottles of water, the simpsons talking beer mug still in it's packaging, the old worn out steering wheel cover, that box of cd's I spilled 8 months ago, an empty box from transporting beer from the store awhile back, my back protector (motorcycle), couple empty packs of american spirits, an old jacket I haven't worn in 2 years... is a couple of amps and a subwoofer box. This is all in the ext. cab of my small pickup.

I'm not going into detail of the passenger seat.

And yes my 'passenger' cupholder holds nothing but so much change it spills on hard turns (often).

Yes I'm a slob, and lazy.

Like your list, Laz Long. Don't have as much cold weather/arctic gear in mine, but similar. "Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it!" Little light on the ammo though.

Ignore the heathens. They can't make it without a large logistic tail behind them. God forbid their coffee makers be on the blink!

folding lawn chair in a bag (for Friday night drinking at Valhalla)
cloth grocery bags
twine (for when I have something too big in the truck and want to tie the cover down)
jumper cables
spare tire/jack
reflecting orange triangle
plastic sheeting



/yeah, pretty boring

I have a first aid kit, a duffel bag with a couple changes of clothes, some emergency money & spare ID, and a buncha crap that I keep forgetting to bring to my storage unit.

Whew...I took my D&D stuff out, so my trunk can't tell everyone I'm a geek.

/Wait...D'oh!

a shovel, a bag of lime, and a tarp.

/_{just kidding}

Nothing but a shovel, bag of lime, a bottle of champagne, and...whoa! hey, where'd that come from?

Saberus Terras:a shovel, a bag of lime, and a tarp.

/just kidding

damn you.
/shakes tiny fist of anger.

damn, I forgot the champagne and the, erm, toy.

I drive an SUV so I'm getting a trunkless kick out these replies...

AtomicAcidbath:Saberus Terras:a shovel, a bag of lime, and a tarp.

/just kidding

damn you.
/shakes tiny fist of anger.

no worries, I'll still be your buddy, as long as we never take a long drive through the desert.

Marijuana.

/tail lights work
//obeys traffic laws

Presently in my trunk:

Metal detector
Spare oil, coolant, windshield washer fluid
Welding gloves
One can of Fix-A-Flat
Spare tire, car jack, tire iron
One hatchet
One 5-pound sledge hammer
Water jug, filled, sitting in a storage bin
Jumper cables
Flashlight
Set of eating utensils
Paper towels

What this says about me? Either I like to go camping and just got back from a road trip, or I'm insane.

Yeah, what ARE you gonna do with all that junk in your trunk?

/sorry

-8" Sub (not the sandwich)
-4 way tire iron
-cooler that holds 12 cans or 9 bottles with ice.

Tackle Box, Frying pan, case of Yakisoba noodle microwave lunches, X-Acto knife set... pretty random crap...


AtomicAcidbath:Nothing but a shovel, bag of lime, a bottle of champagne, and...whoa! hey, where'd that come from?

WTF are you doing awake this early on a Sunday Atomic?

90% of the shiat in my trunk is random stuff of my soon to be ex-wife. What does that say about me?

Ogre840:Tackle Box, Frying pan, case of Yakisoba noodle microwave lunches, X-Acto knife set... pretty random crap...


AtomicAcidbath:Nothing but a shovel, bag of lime, a bottle of champagne, and...whoa! hey, where'd that come from?

WTF are you doing awake this early on a Sunday Atomic?

Hell, I slept in all the way 'til 9:00 this morning.
How the Fark do we keep meeting up on these site...strange.

My trunk is filled with a bunch of those fluids that you use to replace the fluids that are always leaking out of my car.

This says that I drive a beater.

That's where I keep my detachable penis.

a short while ago: most of the engine!

Whilst waiting for new parts all the parts they'd disconnected were just thrown in the boot.

Then they stopped trading. one £3k quote later... and I still don't have a car since the new dealer can't get the "engine maintenace needed" lights to go out and therefore I can't have it in case they get sued.

Gah.

I've enjoyed reading this article, although it reminds me of the time I was a volunteer EMT. An old guy, 80 something years old, and diabetic, went missing after visiting his daughter in the next county. We hunted for him every where, not being sure of the path home he might have taken. About 5 days had passed, when a DPS search helicopter spotted something in a ravine about 3 miles from where I lived. They called us out to investigate, and sure enough, there he was. He had driven off the country road, apparently swerving to miss a deer, and went down into a deep ravine. There were so many heavy bushes, he just went thru them, and no one noticed for days.....no skid marks or anything on the highway. A house was just across the road. Luckily, he had a bag of candy with him, but no water. Although he was stuck at the bottom of a canyon with a creek running through it, the truck wedged between two trees, and he couldn't open the doors to escape or get water. Our volunteer fire department got to use a lot of skills that day - rapelling, wire evac basket, and such, things we never thought we would have to use. And, I kid you not, the very next day after he was rescued, a big rainstorm came, and the ravine he was lodged in was totally underwater. I know, because we went back down there to check things out. It would have been sad if he had stashed the candy somewhere out of his reach, and would have quite possibly expired before we found him.

This also reminds me of the time my spouse, my son and I were trapped in our car, in a snow drift in one of the national forests in New Mexico, coming back from a ski trip, but I just don't want to talk about that right now - it totally creeps me out to this day, and that was over 25 years ago. At least we made it back home OK, eventually.

Sadly, all I have in my truck, except for a lot of trash, because I choose to not litter, is a box of Altoids and some half empty bottles of water. You'd think I'd learn! Good job, KellyLockhart, except I would suggest you keep some things where you can easily get to them, just in case.

Back whenI still used a car:

tire iron
bag of tools
2 1 gal bottles of water
assorted car parts
1 bottle each break fluid, oil, antifreeze and transmission fluid
rope
axe
duct and electrical tape
5 bottles of assorted scotches
fireworks
sleeping bag
change of clothes

I don't remember if I was preparing for a party or mechanical problems, but I think I had both covered.

Tarp from a tent
Pair of DocMartins
Jack, tire iron, etc
Jumper cables
Plastic bags
And someone was nice enough to key "fark u hoe" on the top of my trunk
That says a lot about me. :D

I dont have a trunk but I do have a utility box with the usual in it.

At least the usual if you live in a state that seems like it is trying to kill you every winter. I like to explore the back roads and see the scenery and take full ownership of that part.

Jumper cables, MREs, bottled water, first aid kit, extra battery, misc tools, tow straps, flares, blankets etc..

Yeah, I am the asshole driving the gas guzzler that towed your Geo out of the ditch and plowed your driveway every time you couldn't get out of it last winter.

Also got a can of cheezwhiz, trisquits and some twinkies in there. That crap lasts forever and somehow manages to stay yummy.

It is comforting being prepared and being in a position to help people if need be. Towed a few police cruisers out of ditches last year after a heavy snow. They really should give them vehicles more suited to the environment they have to work in.