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She has her car, I have mine. I only have this problem when taking hers in for an oil change. Her car has a manual transmission, and I wonder how she operates the clutch with her seat so far forward. I'm smart enough to have never broached the subject.
kinda like going into dw's purse, eeeeuuuuwwww, don't know why, just creepy ........I try to stay out of her car for the same reason
who knows what could be under the seat or in the glove box..............
dust & gloves?
I'm not flippin' you off.........just counting cubits
I wrote a horror movie script once....
It was about a guy who came home from a 12 month deployment and took the family truckster to the car wash.............and when he flipped the middle row seat up to vacuum?
Was attacked by the 200 pound mass of Gummy Bears and Goldfish crackers that was living under it...
We always complain to each other that someone has snuck in and moved the seat.
Well excccccuuuuuuussssseeee ME!
Some of us just happen to be vertically challenged, ok?
Plantlust - trying to imagine a automatically self-adjusting car seat...
Nothing like a little Jaegermeister on the tongue to elicit a reaction from someone on the brink of death.
lotsa cars have that gift..
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
> trying to imagine a automatically self-adjusting car seat...They exist -- they work from the RFID chip in the key. What I haven't figured out is how you get in the seat in the first place to insert the key.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
Several years ago, I had a neighbor who was a sales manager for a Mercedes dealership. He brought one of their top-of-the-line cars home one day and was showing off it's features. IIRC, each driver had to adjust the seat and mirrors once, then enter a code for those settings. When the key was turned off, the drivers seat moved back making it easier to get out. When you got in the car, you inserted the key, entered your code, and said "WHEEEE" while the seat and mirrors moved into position.
The ones I am familiar with have a memory in the controls themselves. You get it adjusted to fit you, and set the memory for #2because #1 is your wife's setting.Then when you get in the car, you touch the #2 memory switch and feel the seat move under your butt.I never used it much because I fiddle and squirm and change settings all the time anyhow.
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They have them. The car remebers your settings and all you have to do is hit one button."There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading, the few who learn by observation and the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."Will Rogers
Someone may have come along to tell u about it already, but they already have this. ( I sure as hell wouldn't know... ) but each has a personal. When the other's key is inserted, the seat readjusts to those settings, mirrors too and whatnot... probably the bum warmers too.
Very chic.
Hmmmmm, I wonder if this thread will make it into the magazine.....:0Scott.
too funny!
is your wife 4'12" too?
after this many years you'd think that I would learn to move the seat first before I try climbing in. duh!
Make a deal--you'll put the toilet seat down when you're done if she'll put the car seat back when she's done.
This won't work, but at least you can show her there's two sides to these things.
Edited 5/4/2009 11:41 am ET by rdesigns
We haven't solved the car seat problem, but my wife found a solution for that other seat.
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Now that's just beggin' for a sprinklin'. hehe~ Ted W ~
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With three daughters ( two of 'em still at home ) plus DW, I finally had to find my own solution to that.
Now I just use the sink.
Less water per "flush" too.
Doc - Th' Ol Cynic
if you want to stay in good graces...
don't ferget to move the dishes outta the way..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
>>>don't ferget to move the dishes outta the way..Naw...he's on rinse duty before they go in the dishwasher...Ewwww.... this is quite the thread...Scott.
but when he gets them clean(er) they'll just make it back to the cupboard..
know somebody that let's her dogs clean off the plates...
her eyesight isn't all that great....
memory either....
aaaahhhhhhhhhh.... a clean plate....
back on the shelf they go...
ya should have seen the looks on Heck's face after I told him that after a few meals....
his son got ta lookin' a bit peakid too....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
no better (or "greener") way to break up day old crusty's
if it's green ....
maybe he should get to the doctors....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
no, just hit the local liberal arts college. Those coeds love everything green.
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"Ya, he takes the dishes out of the sink b4 he pizzez in it!"
BTDT, and just before I logged in here, as a matter of fact. But don't forget the portable version: a 2 3/8" hole saw neatly removes the spout from a Tide jug.That, combined with an extended cab's suicide-door setup makes for the perfect urinal with privacy wings.AitchKay
We raised 3 daughters in a 1 bath, 2 bedroom house. If we hadn't lived in the country I would have died with kidney poisoning long ago. (DW finally figured out that what she smelled off the backporch was not the cat:)
I have two daughters, Don't slam the door because I installed it. You screw it up you fix it.I set the toilets, I will leave the seat were I please. Peeing on the compost is good nitrogen.
The issue of seat positon in cars is all equal. Everytime my wife or I need to use a car, we have to adjust the seat and mirrors. Oh, I am at least 6' 9" or so and I have no idea how short my wife is.
I am at least 6' 9" or so and I have no idea how short my wife is.
Of course not, everyone is just short to you :-)
Hey Don,
Who you callin' "short"? I am at least average length, I think or hope for a white guy anyway.
Oldest daughter came home late one night, didn't have her key. Instead of waking us up to let her in, she cut the Aluminum screen on the back door to get in. Last time she didn't have her key.
My great Grand father was a woodsman. always said that when the neighbors got so close he couldn't pee off his porch, it was time to move further back into the woods.
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For those that have met Audrey and I at the different fests........
I'M the one who has to take a taxi from the seat to the stearing wheel after she drives!!!!!!
I have a bucket in my garage for that problem. Empty it outside every now and again.
that's gotta' stink!!!
I'm not flippin' you off.........just counting cubits
I always put the seat back down when I'm done, if there are women living there - it's just how I was raised. I think it's nice that they think of the guys and leave it up.
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What a hoot! It's the women who leave the toilet seat up, not the men. My two girls would never drop the lid, even when I informed them that a flushed toilet can send out a mist they'd inhale. They also don't like to make up their beds. It's probably an attitude of why should I lower the lid or make the bed knowing I'd just be undoing it the next time? Well, no reason to shut off the car in the garage because you'll just have to start it again when you drive it. Or no reason to shut the door because -- you get the picture.
Welcome to my world! I am 6' 8" and the wife is 5' 5". We have 4 vehicles and each drive both of them. They are all old enough to not have set memory. So yeah, I complain ALOT as the seats never get moved back!
Soundsvery simular to me. Wife 5'5" on a good day, and I am 6'7".
Got in here toy rav 4 and I couldn't believe I couldn't find a position I could drive it, comfortable.
framer,
What are the odds of both of us and our wives being the same height???
Pretty cool
Mike
I swear she is shorter, but she says she isn't.>G<
Love them small women!!!!
Mine says the same thing! She is really 5' 4' but tells me she is taller as I am so much higher than her, I can't really judge accurately!
She got mad one day when I got my laser site level out and made her stand against the wall and set a benchmark to see her true height. She didn't talk to me the rest of the day! :)
Mike,
You Da man.....Over the years my dear wife has lost her sense of humor....Pete
"What are the odds of both of us and our wives being the same height???"Yeah. Amazing. But if their names and hair color match up, too, I think I'd be inclined to compare their Drivers License numbers.AitchKay
Oooo, didn't think of that! Its the same woman and she commutes back and forth between states to be both of our wives!