Remember this?

Yesterday I was searching through my car in the hope of finding my lost mailbox key.  Yes, we have a key for our mailbox (which drives me insane) and not only is the easiest key in the world to lose, but it manages to skedaddle once a week or so.  I intensified my search as I found an item thought to have gone to the lost item black hole in the sky 9 months ago.  The finding offered me hope that my mailbox key might turn up quickly.

I did not find the key.  However, I did locate the following that I did not even know we were missing:

1. One half-eaten whoopie pie*
2. A crushed empty can of Cherry Vanilla Creme soda in the back pocket of the middle row passenger seat (you know, the one with the giant "recycle here" stamp on it?)
3. A library book due that day (in the 3rd row, where library books go, of course)
4. a non-library book
5. An empty (thank God) stainless steel food container from God-knows-when
6. Five crayons (not melted yet, yippee!)
7. Pencils
8. Crumbs
9. Crumbs
10. Crumbs
11. More crumbs
12. An empty can of Lays Stax, tucked neatly under the driver's seat.  I have never tried a "stax" but it looks to be similar to a Pringle. I'd blame it on the kids, but we all know that would never appear in my grocery cart, nor do my kids drive yet.  Hmm….

No mailbox key, sadly, but the item that led me to the search that turned up such treasures?  This little square of laminated plastic that has been sitting in my car for the past 9 months.  Remember the story? (Yes, I know, I am not the queen of DL photos).

I now can piece together exactly what happened.  Instead of putting into the little cubby just below the radio until I could park and put it in my wallet, I blindly put in the cup holder area.  It slid to the back and rested there happily until I removed the entire cup holder apparatus as it was suddenly not retracting all of the way.  I reached in and lo and behold, there is my old (now very useless) CA drivers license.  Given all of the hair-pulling and wrangling to get a new one, I would have been just as happy to not find it and assume that it was gone forever.  However, I think I will hold onto it just in case this (God forbid) ever happens again and I need more than one government-issued photo i.d. (my expired in 2006 military i.d. was the key to getting my current VA license).  

Funny when I think back to feeling like that would be the most exciting thing that happened to me all year…

*we went to the Farmers Market on Saturday, so it wasn't that old.  I should also thank the person who thoughtfully re-wrapped it before dumping it on the floor…