I swear my neighbor’s yard has looked like a jungle for the last two months… 🌱😂 But the SECOND I finally sit in my car to record content, their lawn crew magically appears with every loud piece of equipment known to mankind. 🚜🎤 The universe really said, “Not today, creator.” 🤦‍♀️🤣

If you landed here because you searched for the best ways to record video in your car, let me save you some time. You can have the perfect phone mount and incredibly flattering natural light. The acoustics might even be fantastic. None of it matters if you live in a neighborhood where landscaping crews operate. This clip is just me sitting in my driveway trying to film a quick summer fashion haul while an orchestra of gas powered engines erupts outside my window.

The honest truth about filming in your front seat is that you are entirely at the mercy of suburbia. If you look closely right around the ten second mark, you can actually see the bright orange reflection of a commercial weed whacker bouncing off my polarized sunglasses. I was wearing a brand new linen sundress. I had perfectly applied my favorite tinted lip oil to talk about the accessories I bought. The sheer defeat in my eyes when that motor revs up says absolutely everything.

The algorithm buried this one pretty quickly. It only pulled in a few hundred views overall. The people who did see it interacted with it like crazy though. The engagement rate was huge because every single person in the comments knew that exact feeling of settling in to do a job and immediately getting shut down by outside forces. They did not care about the linen dress or the styling tips. They just wanted to laugh at my misery and share their own stories about incredibly loud neighbors.