Newsflash: I'm not crazy

My car isn't the only one that smells like crayons. That probably sounded a little crazy. I promise the title rings true.

Today, I'm taking apart my car door to reattach the interior handle that hasn't worked for a few months and replace a speaker cover that cracked when I moved.

Here is the a picture of the door in my living room, compete with new non-cracked speaker cover:


Anyway, I was searching the Internet for a ghetto way to attach the plastic rivets on the speaker cover, hello soldering iron, when I came across this thread. It's basically twenty or thirty people bitching about how their 2001 Jettas' smell like crayons. I always thought it was just my car. My suspicion was that some combination of young children, water damage, and the farm had created a super smell capable of devious acts like having a crayon aroma.

To recap:
1. I'm not crazy.
2. Lots of 2001 Jetta's smell like crayons.

In hindsight, two is a little disappointing. I thought the crayon smell was kind of my car's defining characteristic. I'll have to start focusing on other features such as the strange stain in the back window above the trunk that looks like Marlon Brando. That can never be emulated.