For some reason I was reading about Bruce Lee, the revered Kung Fu master of my childhood. I never realised how athletic he was until I saw this photo:

For some reason I think that people with those giant back muscles (like swimmers) look like bats.

I was listening to Car Talk and a caller had a problem with a weird noise emanating from the car. The proposed solution was that a door in the air conditioning system was getting stuck and the specific door could be isolated by removing the glove box and listening.

It was the first time I heard that term “glove box” and thought – why is it called that? Is it really because the early drivers of motor vehicles tended to wear gloves when the got out of the car? Maybe early car drivers were predominately opera buffs and attendees of white tie evenings.

Thanks to the wonders of wikipedia we can learn that the origin of the Glove Compartment is in fact a box used to hold gloves, although the answer is more prosaic. The early cars without a hardtop were windy and gloves were necessary to keep out the cold.