Archaeologists Excavate Thick Layer of Sunflower Seeds on Car Floor

WARMAN, SK

More than twenty years of accumulation, amounting to over three hundred kilos, has been excavated from the car floor of local couple Barney and Ethel Kehler of Warman. The Kehlers have been ing onto the car floor for decades, a curious cultural behaviour that drew the interest of the scientific community.

“We wanted to examine this ritualistic spitting of sunflower seeds,” said Dr. Anne Elison, “to uncover the sacred significance that it has in Mennonite cultural and religious practice.”

Dozens of interns and undergraduates have been painstakingly combing the floor of the Kehler’s 1991 Ford Tempo, and in doing so have discovered five ‘new car smell’ air fresheners, dozens of McDonalds receipts, two unopened cans of Klik, a hardcover Rudy Wiebe novel, and a program from a Bar