Article: Her Outdoors: `My car looks like a bag lady's hang-out'

I've been spending a lot of time in my car lately, for various reasons, and it has not been thriving under the attention. In fact it looks like a bag lady's hang-out, if the bag lady was particularly sluttish and drank a lot of takeaway coffee and half-ate a lot of mouldering apples. My office at home is pretty much the same, but nobody has to look at that except me. When passers-by glance into my car windows to check their reflection and accidentally catch sight of the interior, they recoil in horror. A friend has offered to stage an intervention to protect the car from its negligent owner. But no matter how I mistreat the poor thing, there is one indignity from which it is spared - no ...

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