I can't stomach this whole thread this morning, but I just looked at the recent posts...of course our reaction here is "ughhh...how do people let their car get like that?" but I've observed that there are some people who are simply incapable of doing what we consider normal things...I've worked with people who (for reasons I can't explain) seem incapable of getting a wet paper towel from the bathroom to wipe something up...and it's not just a work thing, because I've seen their cars, too.
I think it's some mental thing, like if you clean something up, it's some sort of admission that you made something dirty, maybe that's when dad's belt came out...maybe that's why some of us are compulsive cleaners, I dunno. But it's quite shocking (for us who clean things) to encounter these people that seem incapable of cleaning things.
