Submitted 6 months ago by Gork@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Otherwise it defeats the purpose of calling it a glove box. If gloves are not in this box it would be more accurate to describe that volume as a passenger compartment.
If you call it a passenger compartment then you’re going to have to put a passenger in there.
I vote for “trinket receptacle”.
Maybe it’s not that you’re required to have gloves, but rather that if you leave gloves in the car, they must go in that compartment.
Love that song, exactly what I thought of.
Passenger compartment is even more wrong than glove box, though, isn’t it?
That compartment is used by the driver. I’ve never seen a passenger use it. And obviously, the driver doesn’t keep passengers in that compartment.
It’s got nothing to do with passengers, other than being on the passenger’s side. And if it’s really just because it’s on the passenger’s side, “passenger compartment” is an unusual way to say that in English. It sounds like what you’d call the main cabin.
On the other hand, if you have gloves that you keep in the car, at least it’s possible to keep them in that compartment.
If car manufacturers didn’t always include 500 page novels and put them in there then there might be room for gloves. If anything the glovebox should be called the manual-box
You should keep the potato compartment filled with spuds as the good lord intended
Does noone use driving gloves anymore?
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 6 months ago
youre really not going to like what they do on parkways
Dvixen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or driveways.
ArtificialLink@lemy.lol 6 months ago
You should see me on the highways today.