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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

THE COVER UP IS THE REAL CRIME - USE YOUR NEW THINGS NOW

From September 22, 2007 ON AIR JUDGE WYLD SHOW - Radio Talk
Excerpt from show prep notes. On air content may have been more or less. Not journalistic or debate notes.


COVERING GOOD THINGS:

It occurred to me that to get into a car with dirty pants, that I was putting a shop towel on another towel that I already had on the seat to preserve the cloth seat…


I started thinking about the crazy things we do to cover other things to keep them sort of new looking. Like towels in cars…. Or seat coverings on dining room chairs…. How about coasters and table cloths?


But what I laughed at and am sooooo very guilty of is removing original floor mats from vehicles…. Storing them in the garage….and putting cheap ones in the vehicle in their place…


I’ve even cut carpet to the shape of the trunk of a vehicle so the fabric in the truck wouldn’t get dirty. The carpet was an ugly green color and did not match the car at all… For my hunting vehicle or a workhorse pick up truck… no problem.. extra carpet in the back of the hunting vehicle kept dog vomit off the real interior. And the blanket over the truck seat kept the mud and such from the dirt oval race track from grinding into the cloth seats…


BUT I’ve sold the big sedan vehicles with PERFECT, UNUSED floor mats and spectacularly clean trunks….


What do you cover or keep from using so that when you sell it or pass it on, someone else gets a pristine, clean, great looking interior…and is what you put up with while you owned it, worse than what you passed on….


Why didn’t you use the original item and enjoy it and then buy the cheap replacements for the next owner to have?


Sincerely, JUDGE WYLD

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