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.
“Working as a private investigator, sitting in the back seat was one of my favorite spots to conduct surveillance and film my subjects.”
THREE in the back seat sounds kind of crowded. How did you explain your presence there ?
I have never been in the backseat of any auto I have owned or leased.
Well, you have to seize any help available for English spelling.
I’ve done other things in the back seat.
Don’t give us any lip.
It is difficult to be in the back seat while driving.
A system as intellegent as the millenial monkey that programs it, and we see how many of them have common sense
I hope you're in a bunker if Mrs. Adams read your posts.
I have and it felt weird. 😆
Of course that was back when American automobiles were manufactured and back seats were very, very large...
Most of my cars could also hold 7 teenagers in the back seat almost comfortably...
Well... All except my 32 Chevy (Tried only once in the rumble seat), 39 Ford Coupe, and 47 Pontiac Sport Coupe...
I’ve never understood the fixation with rear seat legroom. I really don’t care. I’m much more interested in front legroom, as I am 6’ 2”, and that’s where I’ll be spending all my time when in the vehicle.
What a sweetie. Give her a pat on the head for me.
She is the most loving dog I've ever had. Owner surrender to Animal Control. She absolutely adores me. My wife is very jealous of her! Pat given.
Back seats are where a lot of Baby Boomers got started.
Very
You remind me of a favorite episode of Top Gear. Simon Powell was the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car and he took issues with Jeremey’s review of a car. He said he’d reviewed it wrong, he should have tried being driven in it it’s a great car to be chauffeured in.
😉
😍 what a sweetie!!
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