Tangent No. 1 The Time a Rat Gave Birth in My Car

In this first-ever Mini Tangents episode of Trivia Tangents, I’m telling the absolutely unhinged (and very real) story of the time my Toyota Corolla became a home for rats—twice. What started as an innocent Easter-egg chocolate mistake turned into newborn baby rats in my trunk during an 8-hour move from Santa Barbara to Davis, a crowd of strangers offering solutions, a pet snake plot-twist I still think about, and a smell I will never, EVER, forget.

This episode is pure storytime chaos: panic, gross discoveries, bad ideas, worse smells, and the realization that my car may have been cursed—especially in Davis. If you like wild true stories that make you say “there is no way this actually happened,” this one’s for you. Stay tuned for the next Mini Tangent, which somehow involves another car and Hawaii.