Convertibles: What to Do When it Rains With the Top Down

Posted by Kate Kew

May 25, 2009

by Kate Kew

For this story to make sense, you need to know that my employer sells adult diapers. So it’s not surprising that I have a few packs of these in my house. I almost always have a pack or two in my car too, because the company donates supplies to local medical clinics and homeless shelters and it is my job to do the deliveries. Now here’s my story:

This story begins a few months ago when my kid brother left our father’s beloved ‘69 Chevy Camaro convertible in our driveway with the top down. And of course, it poured rain while all of us were on a little Sunday sightseeing drive together. Rain in the southeast can be quite dramatic: you have to experience it to believe it. When we returned from our outing we all gasped in horror at the 4 inches of water that had collected inside Dad’s pristine sports car. Worse, our father was due to arrive at our house in 10 minutes. We had to get this cleaned up fast or my brother might need the witness protection act to escape from his single act of innocent neglect.

My brother was panicking; literally shaking as he started scooping water with a tiny little pail he found in my daughter’s toy box. I looked at all that water and it took me 30 seconds or so, but my mind finally made the connection that it should have made right away: Adult Diapers. I retrieved a pack from our minivan. Everyone grabbed two or three and started immersing those puppies in the water. Adult Diapers have a special compound in them that can absorb up to thirty times their own weight in fluid. It worked like gangbusters. If you have never seen how much water an adult diaper can absorb and how quickly it can do the absorbing, then you simply do not know what an astonishing modern miracle these things are. Eight adult diapers soaked up almost all that water in about 40 seconds! A few paper towels got the remaining drops that were left and we all got our hair dryers out and finished up just before Dad arrived in his other vehicle - an old pickup.

So keep your top up when you’re not driving your convertible. And if you want to plan for an emergency, you could do worse than hiding a few adult diapers somewhere in your car. Be careful though, because if your woman finds these types of panties in your car, your sporty image may suffer a little collateral damage.

About the Author:

Kate Kew is an experienced adult caregiver and is the editor-in-chief for Golden Age Medical where she is building a resource library to help inform and support those who are trying to cope with senior care and incontinence for the first time. Kate welcomes you to visit, use and add to this online library: All about adult diapers

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