Once again I have been defeated by those stupid child locks. Don't get me wrong, I think that child locks are a wonderful invention. They keep my children safe in the car until I open the door and can safely get them out. However, there are times when I wish they had never been invented. This morning was one of those times.
Today is my work outside the home day. After getting all the children buckled in with all of their various paraphernalia, (book bag and lunch for Noah, diaper bags for Jonah and Micah, and all the toys they could not live without for one day) I remembered that I had not grabbed my cell phone. I told the kids to sit tight and ran back inside. I grabbed my phone and came back to the car to a sight that made me want to just go crawl back in bed and start the whole day over. Noah has had a bit of a cold and accompanying cough. As I have mentioned before, Noah has a horrible gag reflex. He obviously started coughing as soon as I left the car and proceeded to throw up everywhere INSIDE MY CAR!!!
Noah sits in the middle, so he had tried to climb over Jonah to get out, but because of the child locks he could not get out the door. So there was puke all over the backseat and all over Jonah. Poor Jonah was just sitting there saying, "It ucky, it ucky, it ucky!"
As if that wasn't bad enough, Noah then must have realized that he could still get out of the front door of the car because he had climbed over the seats into the front seat spewing his lovely breakfast of grits and eggs all over the front of the car as well.
Joe and I have decided that we will be going back to a one vehicle household soon so we have been making our lists of what each of us wants included in the new vehicle (since we will be sharing it). His list so far is pretty extensive. My previous list was pretty simple; a bench seat in the front and four full doors. However, it has now been revised to add absolutely no child locks!
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Child/Adult Proof Doors
I knew when I went to bed last night that I didn't feel quite right. When I got up this morning, I could barely swallow. Since Jonah was still sounding a bit congested, we both went to see the doctor. Jonah has an upper respiratory infection and I have strep throat. I hope this is the end of sickness for a while and it does not get passed to the rest of the house.
When we got out to the car after getting our prescriptions filled, Jonah decided he could wait no longer for a meal. Usually when we are around town I nurse him in the front seat of the car. Today there was a lady in a wheelchair blocking my way to the driver's door. Instead of waiting for her to move I simply got into the back seat and proceeded to nurse Jonah. While I was back there I kept wondering why I never nursed him there before. It is much more private and there is even more room. When he was finished, I buckled him into his car seat and went to open the door to get out. This is the point where I remembered that my back doors are equipped with child locks. When the child locks are activated the back doors will not open from the inside. Here I was, locked in the back seat of my Expedition. I had two options. I could beat on the window until a passer-by opened my door from the outside or climb over the front seat. I immediately decided to climb over the seat since the other would be entirely too embarrassing. About halfway through my climb I realized that the last time I had climbed over a seat was probably ten years, two children, and about fifty pounds ago. Somehow I ended up wedged in the front seat with my back/butt to the steering wheel. Every time I tried to move, I ended up blowing the horn. After much squirming, several lengthy horn blows, and more strange looks than I can count, I finally got myself turned around. In comparison, I think my other option would have been much less embarrassing!
When we got out to the car after getting our prescriptions filled, Jonah decided he could wait no longer for a meal. Usually when we are around town I nurse him in the front seat of the car. Today there was a lady in a wheelchair blocking my way to the driver's door. Instead of waiting for her to move I simply got into the back seat and proceeded to nurse Jonah. While I was back there I kept wondering why I never nursed him there before. It is much more private and there is even more room. When he was finished, I buckled him into his car seat and went to open the door to get out. This is the point where I remembered that my back doors are equipped with child locks. When the child locks are activated the back doors will not open from the inside. Here I was, locked in the back seat of my Expedition. I had two options. I could beat on the window until a passer-by opened my door from the outside or climb over the front seat. I immediately decided to climb over the seat since the other would be entirely too embarrassing. About halfway through my climb I realized that the last time I had climbed over a seat was probably ten years, two children, and about fifty pounds ago. Somehow I ended up wedged in the front seat with my back/butt to the steering wheel. Every time I tried to move, I ended up blowing the horn. After much squirming, several lengthy horn blows, and more strange looks than I can count, I finally got myself turned around. In comparison, I think my other option would have been much less embarrassing!
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