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.
Thanks for sharing.
Wishing you the best.
Take care.
I had a several pre-73 GM pickups where the gas tank was right behind the seat.
When my father died, I kept his 2009 Mercury, which I use for work. I have never ridden in its back seat and its pristine condition makes it looks as if no one else has either. The family car is a 2014 Honda CRV. My wife usually drives because she says my driving makes her carsick, so I frequently ride in the back when we have other passengers — when my son was practicing for his license, or when we take the dog with us and I keep her company. I like it.
OMG. I love, love to ride in my backseat! I hardly ever get to do it and have to fight for it.
I try all the the time when family and I go out to dinner and I’ve had a couple drinks to get in the backseat while she plays DD but she always nixes that idea and makes me ride shotgun.
I love when a third person is along.
I have the best backseat- Nissan Rogue. I did get to ride in it a lot on one trip.
I too had a few nights in the back seat.
I always kept most of my clothes on.
My 1975 Monte Carlo had a nice back seat.
I’ve never looked into my own ear.
You must be single, the only driver in your household, and/or have a small circle of friends.
I”ve sat in the backseat many times when my husband was driving and we were transporting a guest or elderly, handicapped person.
1968 Buick Wildcat with a back seat big enough to sleep 6, although 2 was enough lol
I learned it as: "I before E except after C, unless sounded as 'A' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'."
But that still leaves out "weird". It's definitely an outlier.
Paradise by the dashboard light.
Working as a private investigator, sitting in the back seat was one of my favorite spots to conduct surveillance and film my subjects.
Many of us drive cars with no back seats. My personal vehicles are roadsters. The latest is my 2021 Z4 M40I. The wife drives Caddy CUV’s and the only time I sat in the backseat was during her test drive.
Does it count if she is doing the riding??
As Rodney Dangerfield used to joke
Wife wanted to have sex in back seat, she wanted him to drive...…..
If people like Elon Musk have their way, the passenger seat will become virtually like a backseat; meant for handsfree observation only.
I see a few riderless cars in the area now, not many. Some of them have what looks like a big mixing bowl on the top with blades whirling round and round.
I ain’t no mechanic, so please excuse my rudimentary description. I’m at all not eager to step away from the Helm and just watch a ‘system’ do all my driving for me.
Rodney Dangerfield was the best.
“fond memories of back seats”
...well, maybe not in a Trans Am. I don’t recall that the back seat was much fun no matter what you were doing. Now with the tilt steering wheel, there was enough room to get a good...well, never mind. :>) I think you can get the picture.
The government wants that system to proliferate because it gives them capability of control.
From Anglo-Saxon ‘Wyrd’, which does make more sense in modern English spelling/phonetics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd
Where’d you get that rig for the dog?
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