Tip of the Day: Drop Stop – Keep Your Car Interior Clean!

Back in the day we’d go to McDonald’s and get a bag of food. On the drive home, we’d dig into the bag and start eating those irresistible french fries. Inevitably, despite our best efforts, we’d drop a few and they get stuck between the car seats and the console. What a mess! Dvorak reports his own misadventures dropping some ice cream into his Lexus’ interior crevices. Introducing Drop Stop! It shields these sensitive zones from detritus and dropped food. So now you have to balance having a douchey guards installed in your car (remember your grandma’s plastic covered sofa?) or just not eating in your car…

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John C. Dvorak: I’m using a contributed tip, which I think is a great one. One of our producers sent this in. It’s a product you can get on Amazon and elsewhere.

Adam Curry: Oh, interesting. What’s it called?

John C. Dvorak: It’s called Drop Stop.

Adam Curry: Drop Stop?

John C. Dvorak: Yes, it’s a rubbery thing that you stick in your car between the seat and the console. It goes over the seat belt buckle area and keeps you from dropping stuff down that gap.

Here’s why I like this idea. A couple of years ago, I was eating an ice cream bar – you know, one of those with the wooden stick and ice cream on it.

Adam Curry: In your trusty old Lexus?

John C. Dvorak: Exactly. I always say I’m never going to eat food in the car, but I always do.

Adam Curry: Guilty as charged!

John C. Dvorak: Right, and this time, I did something wrong. I took a bite, and a chunk of ice cream fell off. As I was trying to catch it, I bumped it and knocked it straight down between the seat and the console.

Adam Curry: Oh no!

John C. Dvorak: Yep, and I thought, “Oh no,” as I saw the ice cream down there. I tried to dig it out, got my hand down the gap, and managed to get some of the ice cream with the chocolate coating. It made a huge mess. It was a disaster!

Adam Curry: That sounds like such a pain.

John C. Dvorak: It really was. And that’s why this product, Drop Stop, is the way to go. It would have saved me the hassle of dealing with that melted ice cream mess.

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