Glove Box or Glove Compartment?

Glove Box or Glove Compartment?

I believe every car has one:

that little compartment on the front passenger’s side of the dashboard.

By name alone, I trust it’s designed to store gloves.

Driving gloves.

Winter gloves, especially lately here in Florida.

Baseball gloves.

(No, not really.)

The other day, stuck at a railroad crossing,

I decided to clean out my glove compartment.

Here’s what I found:

The car owner’s manual and service record, a couple old google maps, three or four receipts, a pencil, a pen, a month-old-Sunday church bulletin, a cell phone owner’s manual (I don’t even have the phone anymore), and a plastic something or other that I can’t even identify.

Here’s what I did not find:  Gloves!

Until very recently, I used the word “floppy” to describe

that device on which you store computer data.

After being somewhat chastised by my 13 year old son...

and following my 8 minute wait at the railroad crossing,

It appeared to me that I needed to update my lingo… computer and otherwise.

First update:  call the compartment located in my car by its correct name:

a “Stuff Place.”

Got to keep up with the times!

How about you?

Got any “stuff places” that need renaming?

Take Care,

Coach Curley