Vent: The week a squirrel decided my shop was its personal parts warehouse

Last Tuesday, a customer's 2018 Civic came in with a weird chirping noise from under the dash. We spent three hours looking for a bad bearing or a loose belt. Turned out a squirrel had stuffed exactly 47 acorns into the cabin air filter box! The whole shop smelled like a forest. We cleaned it out, but the next day, a different car had walnuts in the same spot. Has anyone else had a rodent with such specific taste in hiding spots?

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casey2681mo ago

Heard about a buddy's truck that kept losing power on hills. Spent a weekend checking the fuel pump and filter, ready to pull the whole tank. Found a huge nest packed with dog food kibble crammed in the air intake tube. How do they even find these spots? Makes you wonder what they're planning in there.

the_elizabeth1mo ago

Your buddy's story beats my record, @casey268. I once spent an hour looking for my reading glasses only to find them in the fridge next to the milk.

nora_murphy1mo ago

Nah, the glasses thing is way more relatable. We've all put the remote in the fridge. A truck airbox full of kibble is just weird. One is a brain glitch, the other is animal engineering. The glasses story hits home because it's a universal lapse. The squirrel thing is just a wild problem you hope never happens to you.

hernandez.gavin2d ago

That dog food detail is wild. Was the kibble from a bag or did it look like the squirrels had their own supply chain going? @the_elizabeth's fridge glasses are one kind of mystery, but this feels like the animals are running some kind of operation out of your buddy's engine bay. Really makes you wonder if they've got a whole food storage network mapped through the neighborhood.