Idahoans Need To Pull These 13 Things Out Of Their Hot Cars Now

A girl never forgets the first time she cooks a bottle of sunscreen in a hot car.

Flashback to last summer...

Downloading my car, I was running later than a pregnant woman when I got distracted by my kid and the cold and frozen groceries I was scrambling to get to the fridge.

And just like that, I spaced out and completely forgot about the bottle of sunscreen sitting in my backseat. Though I didn't know it then, to make future matters even worse, I also didn't crack a window or park in the shady part of my driveway.

Grown-up tantrum in 3, 2, 1...

Fast-forward a few hours. I'm back in the car for a quick errand when I spot what looks like Paul Bunyan's load cooking my leather seats. In an instant, I cursed myself out of with a series of expletives like a sailor on leave and damned my generation's awareness of UV rays.

In an effort to avoid skin cancer and looking like a shriveled prune in my golden years, I gifted myself the mother of all messes on a 104-degree day in Boise.

Leaving sunscreen in a hot car is a hard lesson to learn, y'all.

Now, you'd think I would've gotten my $#!t together after my hell-hot car warped my brand-new Tarjay sunglasses two weeks prior. But no. It took a 28-ounce plastic squeezy bottle of Banana Boat leaking all over my new car for it to sink in. Super, right?

And that, friend, is why on hot summer days, I do a quick sweep for sunscreen and the 12 other culprits waiting to wreak havoc on my hot car in the gallery below.

I highly suggest all Idahoans do the same 🙃

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