Wax and your car

When you think about it, it really goes without saying and is pretty obvious.  However, it's not really something that you think about when you go somewhere, unless you get wet from sitting in the seat. 

It's kind of a guarantee that if your car has been skating there is wax, it's somewhere, it's hiding, and it can be a disaster.  Common sense tells you that when a candle is lit it melts all over everything.  Common sense also tells you that you don't drive around with candles in your car, just know that now it's pretty much a given that it is somewhere.  The problem is that you don't know how much is somewhere and if you find a sliver you might think I got it!  Unbeknownst to you, that sliver just broke off of a much larger piece that's on the opposite side of your car somewhere. 

We've lived in South Carolina and in Florida where your car is 150+ degrees.  My rollerblader is really good about getting the wax out of my car in general but there have been times when its melted into the floor board, on cd's, on my seat belt, in my cup holder... wherever. 

Our friend, Jason K., had a pretty brilliant solution to that problem.  He'd take a huge sheet of paraffin wax, melt it down in a pot, and pour it into paper cups.  That way when they'd go skating they could just peel the top section off the paper cup, use the wax, put it in the cup holder, and pretty much contain the wax melting disaster. 

You can kinda gauge how big of a wax fan your rollerblader is by the candles that go missing in your house.  If you start missing a lot of candles then start checking your car.