You can never have too many toy cars...

"Mom!" he wailed frantically. "Have you seen my Goodwrench car?" 

"Your what?"

"My new car!"

Oh right. The little matchbox we picked up at a garage sale.

"Nope, why don't you play with another car?"

"MOM I need it. Will you help me find it?"

You won't believe how long it was before that car showed up.

Really, Elliott, you need more cars.

After all, there are only two on the radiator covers.

(And who knows how many have fallen down under the covers... at least one that I saw with my own eyes!)

Oh look! Here's a lonely little hot wheels in the couch cushion... but you're right. He's not your GOODWRENCH nascar racing replica. You're four and this is really important. I forget these things.

Hey now, look at this! It's Lightning McQueen. Surely he rates above a faceless, tiny race car?

Or what about this Hess car, from Christmases past? He's been sitting in the dining room for days, staring at the play dough set.

And hey, this looks like fun! It's a water park for cars. Set up in the hallway, right where your toys belong.

Right, well, we'll just leave it there. Because... SURELY you can find a car you'd want to play with in your hot wheels car display. (I wonder why it's half empty.)

Oh no, not those cars. How about this bin full of cars?

or THIS bin full of cars?

What about THIS lonely playset?

Look who's hiding in your bed! (yes, I guess a mattress WOULD be considered offroading)

Bathtub cars! No? Because last week you were all about the color changing cars... Goodwrench car. Right.

What about your playdough cars?! What's more fun than rolling tracks in a mound of dough and smushing blue and yellow bits up in a mini cooper's wheel wells?! OK. Moving on.

TV CAR! Left behind when you started to veg out during Martha Speaks, if I recall correctly.

Sorry bud, no Goodwrench car in here. Maybe outside? Let's check the front porch.

How about the deck in the back... maybe it's in the garage!

No, not in the garage, and not in your other spot. Hmm. This is tough.

Hey what's that? Oh, just another pair of matchboxes that somehow escaped the lawnmower.

And this would be... the tree stump covered in ants that you love to play on. Fun!

Sorry bud, maybe you should just pick a different car and go drive it on...
Oh. Sure. That works.