Friday, July 22, 2016

If you have a car, it probably has a trunk.  A trunk to put stuff in.  Spare tire.  Maybe one of those specially designed bags to carry car-type stuff so it won't roll all around in the nearly empty trunk.  Some water for the radiator.  Couple of tools.  Some rags.  A liter of oil.  What else?  Sometimes you fill the trunk up with bags of groceries.  Maybe sports equipment.  Or a picnic lunch.  What about that funky floor lamp you found at a garage sale?  If you hold your mouth just right you can barely close the trunk lid.

But who said trunks were only for those ordinary things?  Why can't we go outside the box and get creative here.  And who said trunk lids had to close?  Is that a law?  Come to think of it, maybe where you is, it IS a law.  

So come with me to Cameroon, the land of endless uses for a car trunk.  You can always stuff one more oversized 100 lb. bag full of rice or corn or you name it into a smallish Toyota taxi trunk.  And if all else fails, that last bag can be wedged between the back window and the open trunk lid.  If you get real creative, you can cantilever a propaine gas bottle out the back of the trunk, wedged between one of those oversized bags filled with who knows what, and the bottom of the trunk.  If you can close the trunk lid even half way, it can be tied shut with strips of inner-tube rubber.  Great rope substitute.  It's sold all over the place.  And quite cheaply, too.  Entirely too large pieces of furniture can be muscled into the trunk of a car.  How about a full sized fridge?  Think it can't be done?  Try it sometime.  With a bit of determination, absolutely anything can fit into the trunk of a car.  Even people.  I've seen 3-4 guys squished together in the open trunk of a car, with other stuff shoved in all around them.  Every now and again a taxi trundles past with someone sitting in the partially closed trunk, hanging on for dear life to a two wheel cart that is bouncing along behind the vehicle.  
All of this is so common place that I don't even think to take my camera and capture it on film for you to marvel over.  

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