Rat
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Okay, this trick is not unique to Leafs, but I've found it very useful and thought I'd share it. Our favorite Chinese restaurant won't deliver to us so we have to order takeout when we don't want to go there in person. The local environmental police do not allow plastic bags for takeout food in general, but Chinese restaurants got an exception to the ordinance if there is soup in the order because of potential leakage. Before I discovered the trick I would place the bag on the passenger seat sometimes, or in the passenger footwell. In either case the bag could fall over when I rounded a turn and spill soup if the lid to the container didn't stay on. I don't think it ever was a big disaster, but I remember one spill and a couple of times lurching to my right and grabbing the bag as I turned, instead of watching the road and keeping two hands on the wheel. I could have had an accident. So the trick is to use the passenger seat belt. The Leaf's seat belt easily stretches the right amount to feed through the plastic bag's loop handles while the bag sits in the footwell immediately in front of the passenger seat. Latch the belt and you can take those turns as fast as you like. The bag stays upright. This trick doesn't work with paper bags unless you have the type with sturdy loop handles.