“You’re the first person that I have allowed to eat in my car,” he said, nearly three years after the fact.

I have accidentally spilled cake crumbs, dripped ice cream, eaten crispy french fries with oozing sauce…and I never knew any better.

There was one time when I was eating cookies and the crumbs fell into a carefully placed napkin. Knowing that our journey was going to be long, I decided to fling the crumbs out the window. As we drove forward, I rolled down the window. Not understanding physics well, I placed the napkin only inches outside and the crumbs immediately flew back into the car, causing the driver to scream in agony.

So yesterday I asked, “Why me?”

He was puzzled too and repeated while shaking his head, “I don’t know I don’t know…”