He left a frozen chicken in his truck...for a week -an important life lesson

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This is one of those things that explains how crazy life can get... We went grocery shopping last week. I'd gotten a whole roasting chicken. He unloaded the groceries for me. I put them away. We both forgot the chicken. I have no idea how it happened, maybe it slid under the seat, maybe it was too dark and he didn't see it. I didn't even remember I'd bought one and so I didn't notice it was missing...until today. The temperature had been staying mostly chilly. Today though it got up pretty high for this time of year. In town, I was told, the bank clock read 75F. That's how we remembered the chicken. I went out to get something from the truck. As soon as I opened the door the smell hit me. I came back in and told him I thought something died in it. It was THAT bad. He said he knew, he'd noticed it when he got in a few hours before but didn't know what happened either. Thus began our search. Alright I'll admit, HIS search, I wasn't about to purposely look for a dead animal, which is exactly what I thought it was. Well it was actually but one that had already been wrapped and packaged. I'm glad it wasn't a dead animal in the way I was expecting, at least the chicken was all wrapped up but still I can't figure out how we both managed to forget about it. I'm sure the smell will go away eventually and now we have learned a very important lesson... "When life gets crazy, don't forget to check for frozen chickens in your truck!" Care to share any of your "lessons learned"?