Today when my roommate Matt needed a ride to the post office I got into my car and realized that my car had a horrible odor to it. I asked Matt what he thought the smell was and he had no idea. After getting back in the car after the post office, Matt said that he thought the smell was the smell of dead insects. I sort of laughed at the odd name he gave that smell.

Later that day when I was at work at Flying J, they needed my car to haul some old paper and files to the dumpster. So we headed out with the papers to load up my car. When I opened my trunk I realized what was stinking up my car. The smell was horrible. In the trunk of my car were three bags of composting weeds and grass that I pulled from a flowerbed the previous day. The bags were doing a good job of composting the material inside the hot trunk. The bags were smaller and squishy.

We threw the papers in over the bags and drove it all to the dumpster. We threw the papers in the garbage and then I threw the first bag away. The second bag had problems. There was a hole in the bag and it leaked on my hand. I thought it was real gross and all I wanted to do was wash my hand.

After pulling out the third bag I realized another problem. My car was full of bugs and was thriving in my hot trunk with these bags of decaying garden material. I am sure there were more bugs than I saw at first glance, but the main bugs I saw were a spider, beetle, a red weird bug, and a maggot. I was unhappy with all of these creatures in my car and I now have to vacuum out my trunk to get rid of all these little surprises.

So my roommate was right about the smell in my car. The bugs that did not get back to the liquids found in the bags in my car died very rapidly once they were cooked to death by the heat in the trunk of my car.