I have a short story I don't think needs its own thread, so here goes.

I work at a car dealership and service center as a detailer (glorified cleaner of vehicles), so I'm out in the garage with the mechanics. This week, I saw one of the mechanics wearing disposable gloves and gagging as he emptied the passenger side floor of a mountain of Mt. Dew bottles and cans, numerous food wrappers and containers, and bits of food in various stages of decomposition. That was just the passenger side; you don't even want to imagine what the rest of the car looked like.

Usually I'm the one who gets to deal with nasty cleanup like that, so I was smirking a little when I asked him if he'd found a mouse nest yet; food sitting out like that is like a beacon to them. He said there probably was one, but he wasn't going to look, and that the floor was soggy with spilled soda from the cans and molding in places. And that it was one of the most disgusting vehicles he'd ever been in, which is really saying something.

The work he was doing required access to the space under the glove box, which meant that he had to clean all that garbage out to get to it, and he had to be in contact with the nasty soggy carpet. I'd have felt sorrier for him, except he takes his smoke breaks right next to where I work and I have to breathe his secondhand smoke every day.

Anyway, the owner of the vehicle came to pick it up today. Description not necessary, except people with cankles that bad shouldn't combine capris and mid-crew socks. Somehow I wasn't surprised to see that it was an obese woman: roughly 6 out of 10 times*, the gross vehicle belongs to an overweight person.

No apologies from her for the mess (occasionally happens if the customer has any shame at all) or thanks for removing the midden heap from the passenger side; no "Hey, did you want your mountain of garbage back or is it okay if we throw it away" from service manager; but plenty of silent side-eyeing from the mechanics, to which the customer was oblivious.

*For reference, the other 4 times, it's an elderly person who isn't mobile enough to clean (which I honestly don't mind except everything's covered in dandruff and sometimes boogers), a ranch truck full of dirt+hay+manure+dog hair, someone with two or more young children, or someone who has enough money they can just buy a new vehicle when their current one gets too disgusting.