Posted on 09/15/2021 5:37:55 PM PDT by SamAdams76
When was the last time you rode in the back seat of your own automobile?
I have owned at least eleven cars since I started driving in 1979:
I might have missed one or two and I'm not counting my wife's cars - though I did point out she wrecked my F-150, the one pickup truck that I ever owned. She lost control over a patch of ice and flipped it into a pumpkin field. She climbed out of the truck just fine but the truck never recovered.
Anyhow, I can't remember ever riding in the back seat of any of those cars. It always seemed that I was either the driver or I was riding shotgun while my wife took a turn on long drives.
Then there was that time I got a colonoscopy and the doctor strictly ordered that I be driven home by my wife. She did not flip the car on the way home that time but we did stop for a steak dinner and a couple tall beers on the way home (against doctor's orders). But still, that wasn't the dreaded back seat, which is the province of car-seated babies, obnoxious in-laws and dogs.
Dogs do seem to be pretty content riding in the back seat. Mother in laws, not so much, and they are always shouting at you to either slow down or turn the radio down. Whereas dogs love the speed, especially with the windows rolled down.
I'm not sure I would even fit in the backseat of my own car. I'm sort of tall and I keep the driver's seat pushed way to the rear. At the car wash, I'll thrust a vacuum back there once in a while but I never actually get into the back seat for even that.
I'm thinking my experience of never sitting in the back seat of my own car is not all that uncommon. When would a situation ever arise when the owner of a car would sit in the back seat of a car he or she owned?
Either you are in the driver's seat or you have dibs on shotgun when you own the car.
When I was younger I was in the back seat quite a lot
I'm like for the first month they held their heads and got in the back seat out of habit.
I have fond memories of back seats. Does that count?
Most adults haven’t heard the sound of gasoline being pumped into the tank from inside the car in many years, maybe decades.
Well, I guess those adults who live in the state of New Jersey have.
Who cares?
I tried sitting in the back seat but I couldn’t reach the pedals.
That’s one of the first things I do, when looking at, or after first purchasing a car.
Just like I like to sleep in the guest room...to make sure guests have all they need, for pending visits.
Weird, huh?
Ah, my 1969 2 door Chevy Impala!
This is news? Usually I’m the last person to say that but this is kind of crazy.
many of my cars have had back seats in name only, no adult could possibly use them unless they were under 4’
Curling up in the trunk would be weird?
The "i before e, except after c" rule breaks down on this word. Weird huh?
I like the way you think!
Uncanny.
The booze helps.
Was this posted in the News section?
Maybe it should be in breaking news.
What’s the back seat of a car? Do all cars have them? Oh —I know -— I see it in the rear view mirror. I do have one.
The steering wheel and pedals are usually in front.
Beautiful dog.
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