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.
Oops. Simon COWELL. Boy one letter makes a difference.
I blame Donald Trump.
My wife had a hand me down Citation. She called it “the pregnant paint can.”
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