The Slice: One for road a bad idea when it’s six on your roof

Let’s talk about forgetting what’s on top of your car.

“A few years ago we put our big, plastic car-top carrier on our car for camping,” wrote Karen Schiffner. “Upon returning from errands, I promptly tried to park in the garage again. It doesn’t fit. To make matters worse, I did it again a couple of years later. We no longer use that carrier.”

Lynda Sipes was driving out of a grocery store parking lot in Missoula when a burly guy in a lumberjack shirt shrieked (her word) and pointed in horror toward the roof of her vehicle. She had left a six-pack of beer up there. “Thank goodness I didn’t slam on my brakes.”

Duane Munk shared this. “I left my wallet on top of my car and pulled out of a gas station in Baker City, Oregon, recently. A young man in an Oregon Fish and Wildlife pickup saw it fall and the contents scatter all over the road. He picked up everything, found cellphone numbers and called us as we were on the freeway headed home to Spokane. We returned to Baker City and he met us at the gas station. He refused a cash reward. We got his name and emailed the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and they put his good deed in his personnel record.”

Jim Clanton also left his wallet on the top of his car at a gas station, back around 1984. It fell off. To make matters worse, he and his wife were flying to Hawaii the next day.

He decided to take a chance and not report the credit cards as lost.

Well, the next day a woman found his wallet on a street. She took it to Clanton’s office. And his co-workers overnighted it to him in Hawaii.

Back in the late 1970s, Christy Himmelright set out from her home in Eugene to a family gathering on the Oregon Coast. She had forgotten that she had placed a cake in a plastic container on the top of her car. Amazingly, it was still there, though a bit jostled, when she remembered and pulled over. “We enjoyed it all the more for the laughter that went along with the story.”

To be continued.

Today’s Slice question: If someone accused you of having “a case of the Mondays,” would you get the reference?