On Wednesday I was headed out for school for my early morning class (at 10:30) and as per my regular routine, I got into my car. The day before I had helped Joe haul some foam board back to the apartment for a project and it didn't fit easily into my car, so I had moved both of the front seats as far forward as they could reach. Being that there was no longer a need to have the seats practically touching the dashboard, I moved them both back, and then started the car.

After a few seconds I noticed a hissing noise emanating from my car, so I turned it off in fear for its health, but the hissing noise continued. After a couple of seconds I noticed that the noise was coming from underneath the passenger seat, so I reached down to investigate. What I felt was an aerosol can, and I assumed that in moving the seat back I had hit the button on the can, but I was wrong.

I pulled the can out from under the seat to find that a can of Ozium™ air freshener had been punctured by the seat, and now "new car smell" was slowly escaping from it. Then, without warning, the can did what I can only explain as explode, and the complete contents of the can covered my car and myself. One wouldn't think it's a big deal, but Ozium™ is very concentrated, thus my car and my coat became infused with an extremely overpowering, to the point of making it difficult to breath, "new car smell." Currently I can't wear my jacket for fear of driving everyone away from me from its overpowering scent, and I can only sit in my car for a few minutes at a time without choking on the smell. Needless to say, as much as I would like a shiny new car, I never want to encounter that "new car smell" again.