the day the maggots flew

I'd been driving our new white Corolla for about half a year when I began noticing this sour smell coming from the inside of the car. I shrugged it off as all the soured milk that spilled from the not really spill-proof sippy cups. Then one day as I was driving, one of those small annoying little flies flew past my face. I opened the window and tried to shoo the thing out but it wouldn't go! As the days went on, I was swatting at 4 or 5 small flies. This time I opened all four doors in an attempt to free them, but yet again, they seemed determined to stay. A week later, I opened the car door, and a whole swarm of small flies greeted me. I began to suspect in-breeding. So I looked under the passenger seat and found an old cup of rotting, soured milk. There was one fly floating in the gunk. I tossed out the cup and thought, problem solved.But the next day, when I opened the backdoor, a swarm double the original size rose up from Cady's car seat. Horrified, I yanked the car seat from its restraints and gingerly peeled away the washable cover. Little white pieces of what I thought were crumbs began to fall. As I looked closer, the white crumbs began to squirm. And as I looked into the interior of the car seat I realized there were hundreds, upon hundreds of squirming little maggots!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooossssssssss!!!

So the maggots had collected and fed off all the little Craisins, trail mixes, whole wheat bread and cereal crumbs that mixed with sour milk to create a mush that had apparently sustained a whole colony of small flies. No wonder they didn't want to leave. Anyhow, I had to clean it all out in our bathtub, but so far my car is maggot free. Now there's just mold growing on the seat.