[Noah930]

Full disclosure: I'm a guilty party, too. But at least I was aware of the danger I presented the motoring public.

Mrs. Noah ordered some mega-deluxe jogging baby stroller online. It arrive at the local DHL distribution center. I can't recall the details but it couldn't be delivered to our home address (or they tried, couldn't get a signature, and took it back to their warehouse). But it was Christmas Eve, I was on my way home from work, and the DHL place was set to close in 1/2 an hour. So I stopped by to try to pick up the package, as otherwise I'd have to wait until after Christmas. And who wants to give a gift after Christmas when you can have it all set up next to the tree the day of?

What I didn't realize was that this stroller could arrive in a humongous box the size of a small desk. Unfortunately I was driving the 911. Clearly there was no way it was getting inside the car, even if I took it out of the box. And there wasn't enough time for me to run home, swap cars, and come back before their early closing time.

While my 911 may be a coupe and not a cab, fortunately it is a turbo. So I took the box, laid it on top of the sushi tray rear spoiler and leaned it against the back glass. The edges of the box just fit inside the rubber lip of the spoiler. And because it was leaned up against the back window it allowed space for air to still enter the top of the motor. Perfect. While not heavy (I didn't want to damage the rubber lip of the spoiler, after all), the weight of the box would be enough to keep it from sliding around. And so I drove home the 3 or 4 miles with the box like that. I kept to residential streets as much as I could, and figured that if there was any day of the year I could talk my way out of a ticket, this would be it. Light traffic, (mostly) residential streets, 25 mph--it all worked out OK.